Salesforce Developer and Technical Architect

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The Salesforce Developer and Technical Architect is an integral part of the E-Commerce Digital Marketing team and vital to our growth, sales, and marketing strategy. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining our online e‑commerce platform and websites. Working closely with designers, product managers, frontend and backend developers, and IT, you will build and sustain high‑quality, scalable, well‑designed, functional, optimized, easy‑to‑use, and engaging e‑commerce websites, platforms, and solutions that drive traffic.

You will lead, manage, and optimize the code, tools, and deployment processes for all Bend Pak e‑commerce sites, including third‑party integrations such as CSD, Salesforce Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Avalara, and Synchrony. Additionally, you will partner with Executive Management and Business Leadership to guide digital‑marketing and e‑commerce technology projects from ideation to deployment.

• Utilize your expertise in Salesforce Commerce Cloud to design and develop new software and enhance existing software solutions that meet specified criteria.
• Lead in the design and development of Salesforce custom solutions comprising work in Apex, Visual Force, Salesforce APIs, Lightning, and data migration.
• Oversee the development work of junior developers and ensure the use of best practices in all development efforts.
• Communicate with project managers, clients and other developers to design cohesive project strategies and ensure effective collaboration throughout all phases of development, testing and deployment.
• Maintain a flexible and proactive work environment to facilitate a quick response to changing project requirements and customer objectives, and innovate ways to meet mission goals successfully.
• Interact directly with clients, managers and end users as necessary to analyze project objectives and capability requirements, including specifications for user interfaces, customized applications and interactions with internal Salesforce instances.
• Assist the Support Team with escalated issues arising from support of internal and customer‑facing Salesforce environment, especially related to customized applications, user permissions, security settings, custom objects and workflows.
• Facilitate solution design sessions and code reviews, advocate Salesforce best practices, recommend alternate approaches and create architectural designs.
• Provide estimates of work effort for new projects and enhancements. Design, code, and test solutions. Analyze and mitigate issues identified during testing.
• Follow an iterative software development methodology and contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle and support.
• Facilitate and actively participate in meetings with representatives from business and/or IT units.
• Take accountability for quality of deliverables, provide status on development effort, and deliver on expectations.
• Collaborate closely with clients to understand their requirements, provide technical insights, and deliver tailored solutions.
• Develop and maintain SFCC applications, ensuring high performance, responsiveness, and scalability.
• Leverage your experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like React or Vue, and online commerce to enhance the customer experience and platform functionality.
• Apply design patterns and design principles to create well‑structured and maintainable code.
• Lead and participate in code reviews to maintain code quality, adherence to best practices, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor team members and share knowledge to enhance the team's skill set.
• Serve as Full‑Stack Developer with a focus on frontend development, implementing features on our Salesforce Commerce Cloud Platform.
• Write accessible, cross‑browser compatible HTML, CSS, and Java script on our SFCC platform with a multi‑site SFRA architecture.
• Work with UX to translate mockups and wireframes into responsive ISML page templates.
• Creatively solve complex problems to develop quality, on‑budget, and on‑schedule solutions to various projects and initiatives.
• Integrate third‑party vendors, Synchrony, CSD, Avalara, Stripe,…