Specialist, Software Engineer - Salesforce

If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

As a Salesforce Run Developer, you will help maintain, enhance, and modernize Nationwide’s Salesforce technology solutions. You will partner with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, and engineering teams to ensure Salesforce applications and supporting services are secure, reliable, scalable, and aligned with business needs.

This role is well suited for a software engineer who combines Salesforce platform knowledge with hands-on experience building Python-based data pipelines and supporting containerized applications in Kubernetes environments.

Key Responsibilities Provide production support and ongoing enhancement for Salesforce applications, integrations, configurations, and related services.

Analyze incidents, defects, and enhancement requests; identify root causes; and implement sustainable solutions.

Develop, configure, test, debug, document, and maintain Salesforce solutions using appropriate platform capabilities and development practices.

Build and support Python-based ETL processes that extract, transform, validate, and load data between Salesforce and enterprise systems.

Develop data-quality checks, logging, monitoring, error handling, and operational controls for ETL workflows.

Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerized applications and services running in Kubernetes environments.

Collaborate with infrastructure, Dev Ops, security, data, and application teams to support releases and resolve production issues.

Participate in Agile ceremonies, code reviews, technical design discussions, testing, and documentation.

Apply secure coding, change-management, and operational best practices to protect customer and company data.

Contribute to automation and continuous improvement of Salesforce support, deployment, integration, and monitoring processes.

Ideal Qualifications Experience developing, configuring, supporting, or administering Salesforce solutions in an enterprise environment.

Demonstrated experience with Salesforce development concepts, including Apex, SOQL, Salesforce APIs, Lightning components, flows, or integrations.

Hands-on experience developing Python applications or scripts for ETL, data integration, automation, or operational support.

Experience working with relational databases, data transformation, file-based data exchange, and REST or SOAP APIs.Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized application operations, including deployments, services, configuration, logs, health checks, and troubleshooting.

Experience with source control, automated testing, CI/CD, and deployment practices.

Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Ability to work effectively in an Agile environment and support production systems with appropriate urgency and ownership.

Work Arrangement:
This role follows a hybrid schedule and requires in-office presence in Columbus, Ohio two days per week, Mondays and Tuesdays.

Location Requirement:
Candidates must be based within a commutable distance to Columbus, Ohio.
** Work Authorization:
This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT Extension program.**#LI-AZ1

Job Description Summary If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company…