Senior Salesforce Engineer

About Caribou 

At Caribou, we’re on a mission to help drivers save money and take control of their car payments. Caribou does this by using technology to unlock low rates, and people to make the process easy and enjoyable. We offer a fully online application and a dedicated team to walk you through the process. We put Drivers in control.

We have grown 20x in the past three years and raised a $115M Series C. We’re built by leaders from the technology, automotive, and finance industries, and we’re proud to be backed by a great team of venture capital investors, including QED Investors, Goldman Sachs, Moderne Ventures, Accomplice, Link Ventures, Motley Fool Ventures and others.

About the Job

Caribou is looking for a skilled Senior Salesforce Engineer to help us build best in class products and systems for optimizing our customers’ vehicle finances. We are looking for a talented Salesforce Engineer to design world-class Salesforce applications for our evolving CRM requirements. As a Senior Salesforce Engineer, you will be responsible for developing customized solutions within the Salesforce platform. You will also analyze project objectives, create customer workflows, and troubleshoot errors. As a member of Caribou’s Engineering team, you will shape our engineering future.

About the Role

To ensure success as a Senior Salesforce Engineer, you should have extensive experience working with Salesforce CRM platforms, application development skills, and the ability to solve complex software problems. Ultimately, a top-class Salesforce Engineer can create dynamic and scalable Salesforce applications that meet the changing needs of the company. Responsibilities include:

• Working closely with your Engineering Manager, Product Manager, and stakeholders to determine CRM needs.
• Developing customized solutions within the Salesforce platform.
• Designing, coding, and implementing Salesforce applications.
• Creating timelines and development goals.
• Testing the stability and functionality of the application.
• Troubleshooting and fixing bugs.
• Writing documents and providing technical training for Salesforce staff.
• Maintaining the security and integrity of the application software.

This role can be based out of Caribou offices in Washington, DC or Denver, CO. Alternatively, this role may work remotely from a state where Caribou operates*. However, this role will require attendance at occasional in-person team meetings. As a result, candidates must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to be eligible for this position.

About You

You most likely identify with many of these qualities:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or software engineering.
• 5+ yrs of previous work experience with application and software development.
• Experience developing customer-facing interfaces.
• Advanced knowledge of Salesforce CRM platforms.
• Proficient in MYSQL, Apex, JavaScript, Native, and VisualForce.
• Working knowledge of MavensMate or eclipse.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to problem solve high-level software and application issues.
• Ability to project manage.
• Ability to mentor other team members.

Everyone at Caribou is a valued team member, and we always strive to live up to our value Take Care of Each Other. Our compensation and benefits package includes: 

• Competitive compensation: $155 -170K annually
• Equity in a high growth startup
• 401k savings program with 3% company contribution
• Generous paid time off including: 20 days accrued PTO per year, 14 annual company holidays, 16-weeks paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and volunteer day
• Robust wellness benefits including company-paid plans for health, dental, vision, mental health, disability and basic life insurance
• Optional benefits to suit your individual circumstances such as HSAs, FSAs, supplemental life and medical insurance, and pet insurance
• Up to $1,000 per year for eligible professional development expenses

Technologies we teach and use - are not limited to this list but gives you a general flavor of our ecosystem: MYSQL, Apex, JavaScript, Native, Typescript, GO, Python, Haskell, Node (NestJS), Rails (legacy), Kong, Airflow, Postgres, Google Cloud Platform, Argo CD & Workflows, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana