The Senior Salesforce Developer/Architect is part of the GTM (Go-To-Market) Systems team that is responsible for internal applications supported by IT across Sales, Marketing, Services, Customer Success, Product and Engineering. The right candidate has empathy, curiosity and desire to improve and constantly learn; has deep technical experience in all the capabilities and functionalities of the Salesforce.com platform and a proven track record of driving best practices and processes, with hands-on experience in core development (configuration, automation, customization & integration patterns). This individual will: a) Design and build scalable technical solutions working independently and in partnership with a global team of PMs, business analysts, and developers (onsite and offshore); b) Provide vision for enhancements, technical design, and participate in code reviews to ensure development standards and best practices are followed; c) Develop, enhance, debug, support, analyze, maintain and test new and existing Salesforce functionality, managed apps and connected applications.

What You'll Do

• Lead in key phases of the Salesforce development lifecycle, including solution design, configuration, code development, testing, and deployment; take ownership of escalated or complex issues and follow through to resolution.
• Drive down technical debt by implementing best practices and updating legacy code & config; re-write and rebuild functionality to improve performance, security, scalability, and reliability of Yext’s Salesforce platform.
• Deliver on full life cycle from inception to implementation: design, develop, configure, code, test, and debug complex requirements related to the Salesforce platform...while ensuring best practices are followed for integration, application development, deployment, data integrity, and ongoing enhancements.
• Proactively seek opportunities for process improvement: identify and resolve process bottlenecks, data issues, and inconsistencies to help improve operational efficiencies.
• Improve and evolve the Salesforce Lightning Platform, with focus on improving user experience and performance.
• Drive and govern the platform design, capacity planning, and system/application development in Salesforce.
• Translate business requirements to solution design, develop design options & recommendations, review design and code, and manage issues and risks.
• Improve deployment processes, continuous integration, post production operations, and sandbox management.
• Collaborate with, mentor and guide the development teams on delivering quality code and test classes.

What You Have

• 7-8 Years development experience; at least 5 years experience with Apex, Visualforce, Salesforce.com APIs, configuration and custom development of several Salesforce.com CRM modules.
• Strong understanding and experience working with Apex, Batch Apex, Controllers, Triggers, Visualforce, JavaScript, REST, Workflows, Process builders, Validation rules, Lighting experience, Lighting web components (LWC), Governor Limits, oAuth,Single Sign-On and Salesforce security model.
• Experience in Core Java, different open source frameworks, SOA based SOAP/Rest Web Services; exposure to web application development; deep understanding of web technologies, such as CSS, HTML5, XML, JSON, and Ajax. Experience with Javascript frameworks React, Angular, VueJS a plus.
• Significant experience in practicing and leading agile methodologies, including scrum and continuous integration environments
• Experience leading technical requirements gathering and building solutions from those requirements; working at-scale by reusing components and code to push apps out fast.
• Experience development tools, including Force.com IDE or Illuminated Cloud, Ant migration tool, Gerrit, Github, and others.
• Experience with agile methodologies, including scrum and continuous integration environments (Teamcity, Jenkins, etc).
• Expert level understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies
• Deep and broad knowledge of Salesforce products (Sales Cloud, Community Cloud, CPQ).
• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect or multiple Salesforce certifications (Appl Architect, System Architect, Platform Developer II).
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with CPQ, & quote to cash processes in a SaaS / recurring revenue company is a big plus.
• Ability to work seamlessly as part of a multi-site, multicultural, development and testing team, onshore and offshore, internal and external resources.

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The base salary at the time of hire for this position is expected to be between $129,600-$239,000. Pay ranges at Yext are established based on an analysis of salaries for positions with a similar level of accountability and impact in the relevant labor market. Salary levels are expected to change to reflect an employee’s job performance (results and impact) over time. Salaries at the time of hire are typically offered in the lower to middle of the above-referenced range in order to provide the opportunity to reflect performance-based increases over time. In addition to base salaries, employees at Yext are typically eligible for a comprehensive package of benefits, and successful candidates may also be eligible for equity (stock) based compensation and/or variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets.