The Principal Engineer - Salesforce and Red Hat Sales Cloud will join Red Hat, LLC, a leader in open-source innovation, to design, develop, and support the Red Hat Sales Cloud, including Salesforce Sales Cloud and Marketing Cloud. This role is central to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions within a mature agile framework, while mentoring engineers and shaping technical strategy.
What You'll Do
- Work closely with business systems analysts, architects, product owners, and quality engineers as part of a mature agile team to design, build, and deliver solutions
- Develop custom solutions on the Force.com platform, including work in Apex, Visualforce, Lightning, LWC, and application integration patterns
- Use knowledge of tools and best practices for the development and deployment of enterprise applications, including source code management (VCS), code review, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), Salesforce DX, scratch org, and unit testing
- Employ experience in RESTful and SOAP web services, including Salesforce APIs, in support of SFDC integrations with third-party applications and enterprise systems
- Develop accurate estimates on the level of effort for the timely realization of projects
- Perform tasks as necessary to roll out product and support design, quality assurance (QA), and implementation teams
- Review, maintain, and assure quality in all code entering our codebase
- Continually evaluate and refactor our existing codebase for increased extensibility
- Identify system gaps and propose, design, and build solutions
- Debug and work with complex implementations involving features like asynchronous processing on SFDC
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of SFDC experience
- Experience with declarative SFDC development (workflows, approval processes, and validation rules)
- Experience with programmatic SFDC development (Apex Classes, Apex Triggers, and Visualforce Pages)
- Experience with JQuery or other JavaScript frameworks like AngularJS
- Lead the design, development, documentation, testing, monitoring, maintenance, and operation of software solutions with a focus on varied and non-routine complex issues
- Apply expert judgment to work on multiple projects and resolve complex technical issues using innovative solutions
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers
- Coordinate activities of other team members, and potentially across teams, to ensure project goals are met
- Lead the adoption of best practices, patterns, and frameworks across the engineering team
- Identify and implement process improvements to increase development efficiency and software quality
- Experience with CI and CD tools like Git, VS Code, SonarQube, and the release process
- Solid knowledge of customer relationship management (CRM) software
- Proficiency in programming using Apex, JavaScript, and HTML along with VisualForce and LWC
- Deep understanding of the overall SFDC ecosystem
- Solid problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills to set up and interpret logic, data tables, and rule relationships
Nice to Have
- SFDC certifications
- Agile certifications
- Knowledge of Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Technical Stack
- Salesforce Sales Cloud
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud
- Force.com
- Apex
- Visualforce
- Lightning
- LWC
- RESTful web services
- SOAP web services
- Salesforce APIs
- Git
- VS Code
- SonarQube
- Salesforce DX
- Scratch org
- Unit testing
- JQuery
- AngularJS
- JavaScript
- HTML
Team & Environment
- Part of a mature agile team working with Business Systems Analysts, Enterprise architects, testing and support teams
- Highly dynamic and collaborative technical team
Benefits & Compensation
- Flexible work environments (in-office, office-flex, fully remote) depending on role requirements
- Encouragement to bring best ideas regardless of title or tenure
- Inclusive and open culture based on transparency, collaboration, and inclusion
- Opportunity to contribute ideas, solve complex problems, and make an impact
- Equal opportunity and access for all voices to be heard and celebrated
- Support for individuals with disabilities including reasonable accommodations
- No unsolicited resumes accepted from recruitment agencies
Work Mode
Local to Ireland, with flexibility across work environments—from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote—depending on the requirements of the role.
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