Senior Engineer - Salesforce

American Express is a global service company, providing customers with exceptional access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success.

The successful candidate will participate in a highly motivated team responsible for global technology solutions within the GCPT Salesforce Growth Program. This is the chance to work on a cloud-based top-tier platform, explore new technologies and truly drive tremendous business opportunities.

• Functions as a senior member of an agile team that drives user story analysis and elaboration, designs, and development of Salesforce.com applications, and tests and builds automation tools • Owns all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications; Performs hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems
• Performs hands-on software development and testing, typically spending about 50% of time writing code, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints, or doing proof of concepts/automation tools
• Works with technical product managers contributing to blueprints, and assisting with annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms
• Identifies exciting opportunities for adopting new technology to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges
• Mentors engineers, and may have management responsibilities over 2-3 engineers
• Drives consistent development practices - tools and common components; Developing deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Works with technical product managers contributing to blueprints, and assisting with annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms

• Minimum 6+ years of experience architecting designing, programming, and configuring the Salesforce.com platform and deep functional understanding of its capabilities and limitations
• Minimum 4+ years with advanced Salesforce.com development tools and techniques, e.g. APEX language, Force.com custom development, triggers, controllers, Force.com SOAP and REST APIs, JSON, sObjects, SOQL, SOSL, Chatter APIs, outbound messaging and creating Visual Force pages
• Minimum 4+ years experience integrating Salesforce.com with enterprise-level applications though all available integration channels as well as Salesforce-to-Salesforce integrations
• Minimum 4+ years experience with Salesforce.com AppExchange applications and extensions
• Ability to effectively communicate across third parties and technical and business product managers on solution design

Preferred Additional:

• Industry prominence and recognition a plus
• Experience with payments technology and industry is a plus
• Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems
• Also required is a strong will to win and drive results, with a proven ability to overcome internal and external barriers to achieve results. High levels of energy, engagement, and ownership. Ability to travel for short periods, if necessary. Positive attitude is an absolute must.

Educational requirement:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline or equivalent work experience, is preferred