Salesforce Software Engineer
About Focus
Focus is a minority-owned digital services firm dedicated to delivering on projects with social impact in the civic tech space. Our work addresses critical challenges in equity, healthcare, benefits, and education.
Our design team has worked on a wide range of projects for federal and state government agencies. We are currently working with the IRS and Grants.gov to modernize current systems and workflows. We are a small team that is steadily growing and we want you on board to help us shape our future.
At Focus, we believe in showing up and doing good work. We also believe in closing your laptop at the end of the day, taking time-off when you need it, and maintaining a good work-life balance.
We are a fully remote team and all employees must be located within the continental US. Some of our projects may have an occasional need to travel, ~1 to 2 times a year.
About the role
You will be joining the New Jersey Unemployment Modernization program as backend engineer. This is an exciting to join a team that is modernizing a 50 year old system and transforming the way unemployment claims are handled in the state.
What you’ll do:
Senior Salesforce Engineer that will work with an Architect and junior developers to decide and implement modernization strategies
Implement and deploy custom salesforce functions and UIS
Review code pull requests by your colleagues
Create technical specs to explore approaches to upcoming tasks
Review technical specs written by colleagues
Work on minor cloud infrastructure updates using terraform
Update documentation and knowledge base as needed
Attend team meetings (sprint planning, standup, retrospectives)
Requirements
Need-to-have
At least 5 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium to large-scale Salesforce applications
Understanding of user interface design best practices
Stakeholder management and communication abilities
Experience working within cross-functional teams
Lived in the US for 3 out of the last 5 years
Nice-to-have
Experience working in the civic tech space
Experience working on enterprise or complex systems
Experience with AWS and SQL databases a plus
Python experience
Experience with Salesforce Lightning UI
Thank you for taking the time to consider this role. We look forward to meeting you and having you join our growing design team!
Our Interview Process
Duration: Around 2 weeks
Phone screen (30 mins)
Portfolio Review Interview (1.5 hr)
Share a case study from your portfolio and answer some scenario based questions
Behavioral Interview (1 hr)
Compensation Range: $125K - $170K