Salesforce Developer (Intermediate) at Discovery Limited

About the Job

About CRM

• Working in a high performance organization that prides itself in attracting the finest talent, we challenge ourselves to find solutions that make a difference in the world. Our environment is always buzzing with energy and smart, motivated people working on finding the best way to move forward.

Key Purpose

• Work closely with a passionate development team to design, develop and maintain Java based solutions for a dynamic, multi-national company that sets the benchmark in its industry.
• Must be a team player and have the ability to work with both vertical and horizontal colleagues both in a formal and informal setting.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Develop, test, and maintain high quality Salesforce Platform application software.
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues.
• Assist with the production of technical specifications and designs.
• Promote new technologies and share knowledge within the team.
• Recommend improvements to development processes, contribute to implementation plans, and assist in rollout.
• Adhere to coding standards and know best practices
• Perform code reviews.

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Passionate about technology and development
• Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and cope with multiple concurrent projects with changing priorities and deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to deal with complexity and migrate between detailed and high level requirements
• Self-starter who takes ownership and accountability, and is able to work with minimal supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education and Experience

Education:

• Matric/Grade 12 and formal Java qualifications
• IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar).

Experience:

• 3 years Salesforce systems development experience.
• Experience in Presentation layer development (HTML5, Lightening, Pardot, Conga, CSS, JSP, TypeScript / JavaScript, Spring MVC, Angular 1 & 2)
• Solid understanding of Salesforce Platform development ecosystem
• SDLC, Agile
• Experience in Salesforce application frameworks
• Unit testing and mocking frameworks.

Preferred:

• 3+ years Salesforce systems development experience
• Relevant Salesforce certification
• JMS, Tibco EMS experience.
• Object-oriented development
• Databases
• ElasticSearch or SOLR experience
• Angular experience
• Experience with Business Rules Management Frameworks.
• Experience using formal modelling languages (UML, ArchiMate etc) and modelling tools (Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm etc.)
• Exposure to Agile principles and methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Test-Driven Development