Salesforce Architect

Ibotta is seeking a Salesforce Architect to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. The Salesforce Architect creates solution designs and drives implementation of solutions together with the Salesforce squads. The architect will both be the lead for ongoing efforts and contribute ideas and suggestions for new projects as part of the Architecture team. This position will work closely with business and technology leaders across the company. It is a director-level position, with broad responsibilities and high executive visibility.

Ibotta uses Salesforce.com to support Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Revenue Operations. There are extensive integrations with in-house and purchased applications, mostly hosted on AWS. Many of Ibotta’s core business functions are implemented in Salesforce.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado or with the option of full-time remote. Candidates must live in the United States.

What you will be doing: 

• Understand business processes and needs across the breadth of the internal departments that depend on Salesforce features and/or data.

• See the big picture, constantly imagining future scenarios, and creating strategies to sustain competitive advantage

• Design solutions for major projects that solve strategic business problems.

• Guide the implementation of designs from requirements to launch, mentoring engineers and administrators as they implement, update, and maintain your solutions.

• Work closely with business teams, the Salesforce teams, Operations, Billing and Budgeting, and other AWS engineering teams to design and implement solutions within and connected to Salesforce.

• Own the technical aspects of Salesforce, and all of the integrations with it.

• Support the Product Manager with knowledge and proofs of concepts for future projects.

• Contribute to Ibotta Architecture as a whole through reviews and participation in roadmapping and cross functional initiatives.

• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency, & A great idea can come from anywhere.

Create Solution Designs & Architectures

• Descriptive Overview

• User Experience flow

• Data model diagrams

• Other diagrams and designs as appropriate, like Business Process Models, data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, data conversion/migration plans

• Definition of API calls and Events

• Identify solution options and sometimes create Proofs of Concept to enable decision making between options

• Create Epics for implementation

Implement Solution Designs

• Support business process changes

• Work with implementation squads to communicate and improve solution designs 

• Review Apex classes, lightning web components, REST API’s 

• Work with stakeholders to review designs and demos and incorporate feedback

• Ensure integrations are reliable, secure, and recoverable

• Protect Ibotta assets, including data, intellectual property, documentation, and Salesforce config

• Participate in implementation team agile ceremonies and Architecture team initiatives

What we are looking for:

• 10 + years of Engineering experience including 5 + years of Salesforce.com experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Math, or engineering required

• Designed and implemented multiple complex solutions on Salesforce.com

• Excellent communication skills; comfortable working with senior leadership as well as junior team members

• Capable of communicating complex technical solutions to business stakeholders and translating business needs into technical specifications for developers and administrators

• Salesforce configuration experience and development experience with Apex and Lightning Aura Components or Lightning Web Components

• Solid understanding of overall Lightning architecture, especially platform events

• Background working with Agile Scrum methodology; familiarity with Jira or similar tool

• Experience building custom solutions on Force.com platform using standard and custom objects, APEX web services, SOQL, SOSL, REST APIs, and events

• Experience with integrating data and features across Salesforce and other platforms or systems

• Strong history with development languages, scripts and frameworks: Java, JavaScript, Ruby or python, and database query languages (SQL or no-SQL) 

• Solid understanding of Engineering best practices, such as source control, code review, testing, and CI/CD.

• Experience with Quote-to-Cash applications like Salesforce CPQ is highly desirable

• Full stack web development expertise is a plus

• Engineering experience on AWS is a plus

• Required Salesforce Certifications: Administrator, Platform Developer 1, Platform App Builder I & II; Applications Architect is a plus

About Us:

Built in Denver, CO, Ibotta, Inc. ("I bought a...") is a free mobile shopping app that gives users cash back on groceries and more. Through our partnerships with brands and retailers like Procter & Gamble, Kraft Heinz, Kellogg, Amazon, Walmart, Target and Uber, we’ve delivered over $1.25B in cumulative cash rewards to our Savers. Guided by our values and our mission to make every purchase rewarding, we come to work energized by the business problems we get to solve, the technology we get to build, and the people we get to innovate (and have fun) with. Ibotta made Inc.’s 2020 list of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for the third consecutive year. In 2019, we became the first mobile consumer technology company in Colorado to achieve $1B in valuation.

 To learn more about what our Tech teams are doing day to day, visit Building Ibotta on Medium.com

 Additional Details:

• This position is located in Denver, CO or with the option of full-time remote and includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), Lifestyle Spending Account, 401k match, and equity.

• Base compensation range: $185,000-$220,000. This compensation range is specific to the United States labor market and may be adjusted based on actual experience. 

• Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibotta’s employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

• For the security of our employees and the business, all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies, identifying and reporting phishing attempts, as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels.

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