Salesforce Developer at Valenture Institute

Description

Valenture Institute partners with the world’s leading education institutions to transform physical limitations into digital opportunities. We create new opportunities for students to choose an aspirational online learning experience by offering fully-supported online high school programmes.

As a social enterprise, Valenture Institute is also committed to levelling the playing field and increasing access for all students through free curriculum offerings, extensive scholarship programs and blended learning micro schools in underprivileged communities.

The role:

Summary:

The Salesforce Developer is responsible for the technical implementation of Valenture Institute’s Salesforce-based solutions, including its CRM and Student Information Systems. The Salesforce Developer supports the Salesforce Product Architect and Salesforce Solutions Architect to deliver sound working software to ensure a robust and seamless experience for both internal and external users.

Responsibilities:

• Work with key members of the Valenture Technology team to to determine functional and technical requirements and participate in application design, configuration, testing and deployment

• Perform configuration and customization of the Salesforce platform

• Participate in efforts to develop and execute testing, training and documentation

• Produce non-functional deliverables such as requirements specifications, design deliverables and, status reports

• Utilise best practises to provide operational support, enhancements and bug fixes as needed on the Salesforce platform

• Proactively engage in continuous improvement efforts for application design, support, and development processes.

• Contribute to quick reference guides and documentation for technical knowledge sharing and operational troubleshooting.

• Perform regular reviews on implementation done by other developers

• Manage the various Salesforce environments - Dev, QA, Staging and Production

• Be able to communicate development progress to the broader Salesforce team

• Maintain the security and integrity of the application software

• Design and build high-performance, reusable, and reliable Apex code, following best practises

• Provide technical design input and contribute to the build of Flows

• Write test classes for the class that you develop and ensure more than 80% code coverage

• Support delivery of business requirements through application development, including basic Visualforce pages/Lightning pages, Lightning Web Components, Apex classes and triggers

• Assist with each release cycle to implement and deploy new/updates to existing applications and code

Requirements

• BSc Computer Science, Engineering or BSc/BComm Information Systems

• At least Salesforce certification “Salesforce Platform Developer I”

• 4+ years of Salesforce solution design and implementation experience

• Involvement in at least 5 sophisticated Salesforce implementations

• 4+ years experience using programmatic and declarative tools to achieve business requirements

• 2+ years Salesforce Lightning experience

• Exceptional communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences

• Highly organised

• Software engineering skills with Force.com Platform (Apex, Aura, LWC, SOQL, Unit Testing)

• Experience in core web technologies including HTML5, JavaScript and jQuery

• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of relational databases, data modelling, and ETL tools

• Experience with web services (REST & SOAP, JSON & XML, etc.)

• Experience with Agile development methodologies such as SCRUM

• Visualforce page development

• Hands-on experience in Salesforce administration setup such as managing users, security controls, and data as well as creating roles, profiles, and reports.

• Experience in designing custom objects, custom fields, picklists, page layouts, workflow, approval processes, validation rules, custom tabs, reports, Visualforce pages, dashboards, and email generation according to application requirements

Advantageous:

• Salesforce Education or Nonprofit Cloud experience is a major advantage

• Familiarity with Lightning Web Components or popular Javascript Frameworks (e.g. ReactJS)

• Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification

• Salesforce Community Cloud Certification

• Salesforce Platform Developer II Certification

• Salesforce Javascript Developer

• Experience designing and/or managing a release strategy

• Familiarity with version control systems

Benefits

• Family member discount to Valenture Institute

• Remote working

• Voluntary savings programme