Job Title
Senior Salesforce Engineer I (Hybrid)
Job Description
For more than 80 years, Kaplan has been a trailblazer in education and professional advancement. We are a global company at the intersection of education and technology, focused on collaboration, innovation, and creativity to deliver a best in class educational experience and make Kaplan a great place to work.
Our offices in India opened in Bengaluru in 2018. Since then, our team has fueled growth and innovation across the organization, impacting students worldwide. We are eager to grow and expand with skilled professionals like you who use their talent to build solutions, enable effective learning, and improve students’ lives.
The future of education is here and we are eager to work alongside those who want to make a positive impact and inspire change in the world around them.
Kaplan is looking for a Senior Salesforce Engineer - I to join the Salesforce implementation team. This dedicated position is needed to support multiple Salesforce instances across the organization. The ideal candidate should have the right mix of business analysis skills and passion for leveraging Salesforce capabilities to design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements.
Primary/Key Responsibilities
- Write production-quality code across multiple Salesforce instances while following coding standards and best practices per Business requirements
- Stay current with the periodic Salesforce releases and leverage the updates applicable to the Org.
- Support all Salesforce releases and ensure system uptime as per the SLA.
- Identifies and leads discussions on benefits / risks to different approaches.
- Work on small autonomous teams to build applications on the Salesforce platform.
- Create and maintain Visualforce pages, Apex Classes, Triggers, and Lightning Web Components
- Configure Salesforce and Integrate with 3rd party tools as needed.
- Work with other technology teams in order to facilitate interfaces between Salesforce and other systems.
- Being open to explore solutions outside of Salesforce technology stack.
- Hybrid Schedule: 3 days remote / 2 days in office
- 30-day notification period preferred
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field required. Strong relevant work experience considered.
- 6+ years of experience working as a developer in any Object-Oriented Development platform such as Java, C# or .NET.
- 5+ years of experience developing on the Salesforce platform.
- Experience with Salesforce developer toolkit including Apex Classes, Apex WebServices (with REST and SOAP standards), Apex Controllers, Triggers, Visualforce Pages, Batch Apex, Apex Schedulers, Custom Settings, Custom Labels, SOQL and Migration Tools.
- Strong foundations of basic software development principles: Design patterns, Modular programming, Object Oriented design and Microservices.
- Ability to work with various Salesforce customer portals, communities and sites technologies.
- Well versed on SQL, PL/SQL, SOQL, SOSL and RDBMS technologies.
- Proven experience with front end technologies such as Lighting Web Components and Aura Components.
- Be familiar with ETL Tools, Data and Metadata Migrations (maintain unmanaged packages).
- Demonstrate excellent understanding of various governor limits applicable to Salesforce.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively work in a team environment with minimal supervision.
- Excellent problem solving and communication skills.
- Proven ability to integrate business processes across disparate systems using ESB, SOAP and/or REST based web services.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree
- Salesforce Platform Developer I
- Salesforce Administrator
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Location
Bangalore, KA, India
Additional Locations
Employee Type
Employee
Job Functional Area
Systems Administration/Engineering
Business Unit
00091 Kaplan Higher ED
Kaplan is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All positions with Kaplan are paid at least $15 per hour or$31,200 per year for full-time positions. Compensation for specific positions are based on job level, skills, years of experience, and education, among other factors. Additionally, certain positions are bonus or commission eligible. Information regarding benefits can be found here.
Diversity & Inclusion Statement:
Diversity inspires innovation and growth in the Kaplan community. Kaplan strives to be a model employer for inclusiveness. Not only does Kaplan value its employees for their professionalism and skills, but also for the unique viewpoints they bring to the Organization. Kaplan's employees bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and backgrounds that give Kaplan a competitive edge in anticipating and exceeding our students' needs in today's global market. Learn more about our culture.
