Senior Salesforce Engineer

CarMax • Richmond, VA

2d • $104,000 - $156,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

CarMax, the way your career should be! What you will do – Essential Responsibilities Design, build and integrate solutions on the Salesforce platform that support sales associates to understand the real-life challenges of customers and discover what they need to move seamlessly between the online and in-person shopping experiences. Balance customer needs with business goals and know how to deliver technical solutions that enhance business value. Collaborate with colleagues in product design, product management and systems architecture to develop experimental solutions and bring great ideas to life. Market your innovative ideas internally and evolve them according to feedback and critique within an agile environment. Stay on top of industry trends and best practice to continuously improve what we do and ensure our customer experience is the best it can be. Purpose of the role It takes a passion for technology to develop ground-breaking products. Working collaboratively and creatively as part of a close-knit product team, you will be part of the development process from end to end: consulting users, carrying out experiments, tackling complex business problems and implementing new products. You can balance customer needs with business goals and know how to deliver technical solutions that enhance business value. Creative, curious, and highly analytical, you never stop learning and thrive on constant change in the digital marketplace.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience is required.
• 5+ years of full stack application development experience required.
• 3 or more years of experience implementing Salesforce custom applications for sales, service, or business office users using the Apex language.
• Solid understanding of Salesforce custom application design including knowledge of limits, throttling, security, APIs, etc., on the Salesforce platform.
• Experience with agile development teams and practices.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Apex and Lightning frameworks
• Experience with Salesforce Managed Packages
• Experience with an API first design paradigm and cloud based hosting
• Experience with Salesforce customization and administration
• Experience with DX preferred
• Salesforce Developer Certifications preferred
• Experience with .NET, Azure platform is a plus
• Experience as a software developer working with product teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and integrate solutions on the Salesforce platform that support sales associates to understand the real-life challenges of customers and discover what they need to move seamlessly between the online and in-person shopping experiences.
• Balance customer needs with business goals and know how to deliver technical solutions that enhance business value.
• Collaborate with colleagues in product design, product management and systems architecture to develop experimental solutions and bring great ideas to life.
• Market innovative ideas internally and evolve them according to feedback and critique within an agile environment.
• Stay on top of industry trends and best practice to continuously improve what we do and ensure our customer experience is the best it can be.
• Consulting users, carrying out experiments, tackling complex business problems and implementing new products.
• Proven skills and experience mentoring team members is expected.

Benefits

• Paid sick time
• Vacation time
• Holiday time
• Bonus and equity may be available
• Paid time away with no specified limit as needed for sick, vacation, bereavement, jury duty, holidays, floating holiday, etc. subject to manager approval (for full-time salaried associates)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior