Lead Salesforce Developer

Finance at Brex

The Finance team leads financial planning and analysis as well as corporate development, which includes board communications, investor relations, fundraising, and M&A. We strive to be agents of change rather than a reporting function. We’re integrated and partner closely with teams across Brex to evaluate key questions, solve problems, and drive results. Through our corporate development efforts, we are also deeply involved in long-term planning and major strategic decisions for the company.

What you’ll do

As a Salesforce Developer, you will be responsible for designing, testing, implementing, and supporting the Salesforce PaaS/Saas at Brex. You will work closely with functional leaders, organizational units, and subject matter experts to identify, develop and deploy new business processes including: Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, Customer Account Management, IT and core business processes. We’re searching for someone with a record of success aligning business processes with Salesforce best practices, translating business requirements into technical specifications, and implementing the solutions.  

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with functional business units and help translate business requirements into logical technical designs; defining technical solutions in Salesforce.com to support business work processes and bring the design to life through declarative or programmatic solutions
• Participate in cross-functional teams that address strategic business issues across departments (Marketing, Sales, Operations, Support, and others as needed) aligning business processes with Salesforce best practices
• Coordinate the evaluation, scope and completion of new development requests
• Use advanced declarative and programmatic tools to design, build, test, deploy, and support Salesforce solutions 
• Coding and development according to current industry standards and best practices
• Manage change management and deployment process for Salesforce code base
• Conduct code reviews for ongoing projects to ensure high code quality and design patterns are followed

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive experience in Salesforce development with Salesforce implementations in a complex B2B environment
• Ability to assess the impact of new requirements on Salesforce.com and all upstream and downstream applications, systems and processes
• Strong understanding of the Salesforce platform, with the ability to build custom apps and objects, formula fields, workflows, custom views, and other content of intermediate complexity
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills with the ability to work with key stakeholders across the organization; manage laterally and upward
• Able to communicate effectively with diverse people and individuals at various levels within the organization
• Familiarity with advanced Apex programming concepts including core design patterns, limits and bulk patterns, efficient and reliable trigger handling, asynchronous operations and effective unit testing
• Experience with Salesforce APIs to integrate Salesforce with other tools and third-party applications
• Expertise using key Salesforce core programing languages (Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components, HTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, SOQL, RestAPIs)
• Experience with CI/CD and deployment techniques in Salesforce
• English proficiency/fluency, both written and speaking (note: interviews will be conducted in English)
• Must be willing to work in office 2 days per week on Wednesday and Thursday.

Bonus points

• Salesforce certifications (Platform Developer I, Platform Developer II, Architect)
• Experience working in a SCRUM or Agile methodologies 
• Previous non-Salesforce software engineering experience
• University or College Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related experience
• Front-end development experience with HTML, CSS, and the Lightning Design System
• Experience as a Salesforce Administrator or Business Analyst

Location

• Must be working in Brazil at the start of role.