Lead Salesforce Developer

We're looking for a passionate, impactful, technical leader who wants to come here to do their very best work and make their mark and add their chapter to the long and storied history of The Walt Disney Company. Someone who holds themselves and their teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner. A collaborative technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

Responsibilities:

Deliver software projects with high quality on time.

Provide domain expertise and innovative solutions to complex business problems.

Collaborate with leads and influence software architectures that are robust, scalable, fault-tolerant, secured, and cloud-native.

Possess Salesforce CRM Analytics solution design and implementation experience.

Reason logically and creatively, identifying problems, drawing valid conclusions from the data available, and developing effective solutions while applying creative thinking in the design and development of high-performing web applications.

Collaborate with leads to keep the team's technology radar and architecture principles aligned with the industry and the needs of our users. Stay up-to-date on the latest software development technologies and trends.

Lead code reviews and ensure that all code meets quality standards.

Provide leadership and direction to junior and senior engineers.

Deliver multiple projects utilizing an Agile methodology.

Take a high-ownership, self-sufficient, hands-on position on the team to lead and drive quality and maintain application stability.

Write complex programs, analyze code changes, and suggest improvements.

Check in valuable, clean, and well-documented code daily that adds new features and capabilities.

Create reference implementations for the purpose of mentoring and leading more junior staff (when required).

Help define engineering standards and provide technical mentorship to the team.

Investigate and resolve any production issues from the end user (UI) to the persistence layer, and work to prevent them.

Work with product managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and of high quality.

Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure that software solutions align with business goals.

Requirements:

Have 7+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using the Salesforce and CRM Analytics platforms.

Hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field.

Have Salesforce Certifications:

Be able to demonstrate significant experience working with relational databases, SQL and newer NoSQL data stores as well as event streaming platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, and Kafka).

Expertise with Cloud Platforms like AWS (S3 Lambda).

Experience applying Python and AI/ML Frameworks.

Have a strong interest in open source technology.

Possess good communication skills and enjoy mentoring and helping others to succeed as a team.

Care about your craft and have opinions about the right way to do things with technology.

Preferred Qualifications:

A master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical discipline is highly desirable.

Previous work experience in Ad Platforms, Accounts Receivable and/or financial applications.

Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high-quality results.

Knowledge of AWS managed services, performance testing, and application profiling.

Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it.