Salesforce Architect

About Astound Digital

At Astound Digital, we are pioneers in the digital landscape, dedicated to transforming how the world interacts with technology, data, and creativity. Our role as trusted advisors in the digital landscape empowers the world's most innovative brands with frictionless, end-to-end customer experiences. We are known for our comprehensive solutions, proven expertise, and collaborative, nimble approach that instills confidence in our clients. We embrace the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to drive innovation, efficiency, and better outcomes for our clients and employees. Join us to navigate and lead in the ever-changing digital world, where your impact will extend beyond the ordinary.

Job Purpose

You will be a leader of a high-performance feature-driven development team responsible for building enterprise-level e-commerce platform solutions. The role requires you to work in the UK timezone to collaborate with global teams and stakeholders. 

In this role you'll get to:

• Lead salesforce project development team;
• Familiarize the team with customer's needs and development process;
• Take ownership of the project. Collaborate with the project team to drive closure to problems and open issues;
• Prioritize and distribute tasks. Make sure that team members are familiar with them;
• Perform code reviews;
• Drive continuous improvements to development methodology and underlying processes;
• Participate in technical approaches writing;
• Write and review technical documentation.

Your skills and qualifications:

• 5+ years of Apex programming (mandatory);
• 3+ years of Lightning Aura Component or LWC programming (mandatory);
• Proven 0.5+ years of development team leadership experience (mandatory);
• Salesforce Administrator certification (mandatory);
• Salesforce Platform Developer I certification (mandatory);
• Salesforce Platform Developer II certification (mandatory);
• Upper-intermediate writing and speaking English (mandatory);
• Experience in multi-threaded programming, software debugging and profiling tools and techniques, highly distributed architecture, and advanced design concepts like Design Patterns;
• Software architecture design using object-oriented and modularity principles;
• Experience with working on complex functional software projects that require a deep understanding of the application logic and dependencies;
• Technical documentation writing skills;
• Design patterns knowledge and experience;
• Strong expertise in Apex programming (triggers, controllers and classes);
• Strong experience developing components/applications using Lightning Framework;
• Firm knowledge of Apex/Lightning framework best practices;
• Solid experience using standard salesforce APIs (REST, Bulk, Streaming);
• Excellent knowledge of Salesforce Community;
• Salesforce limitations;
• Experience using Salesforce data tools;
• HTML/CSS/JavaScript experience;
• Experience integrating enterprise applications with other API;
• Good understanding of SQL, SOQL & SOSL;
• Strong understanding of Salesforce SDLC.

Good to have:

• Salesforce JavaScript Developer I certification;
• Experience in complex features and integrations;
• Experience in developing eCommerce solutions is highly desired;
• Basic knowledge of project management;
• Experience with interviewing and on-boarding of engineers;
• Experience managing geographically distributed teams.

What we offer in return

• Off-the-Charts Career Growth: Сlear career path and a performance review system, career coaching, training and certifications, mentoring and knowledge sharing;
• Well-being Is Top Priority: Parental leave, paid time off, comprehensive health and medical plans,  sports activities reimbursement;
• Real Work-Life Balance: In-office, or hybrid working modes; flexible hours; work-life balance support on every stage and level;
• Culture of Success: Culture of collaboration that encourages innovation every step of the way; 8 offices spanning four continents bring diverse perspectives that drive tangible results for our clients worldwide.

Why work for Astound Digital?

Whether you're working directly with our world-renowned clients or with your Astound colleagues from around the globe, you will shape the future of digital commerce, using emerging technologies and innovative approaches.

Grow your career with Astound Digital, and discover exciting opportunities while doing the work you love