What are the responsibilities and job description for the Salesforce Developer position at Nextek, LLC?
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Gradient Financial Group is a leading financial services company that includes twelve unique entities doing business throughout the country. We’re seeking an energetic crew member for the Salesforce Developer with Nextek. NexTek is a fully functioning software development company in the financial services industry. NexTek creates software applications and solutions to serve the needs of Gradient enrolled Financial Service Providers.
It’s time to take your career to a higher altitude with Gradient Financial Group. Visit https://www.careers.gradientfinancialgroup.com/ to learn more about our values, leadership team, career paths, benefits and more!
Here at Gradient, we take our work and our culture seriously. We frequently come together for food days, friendly competitions, volunteering, and other special events. We also prioritize openness and transparency so that you’re always informed when significant decisions and changes are made.
When charting your next route, you may be wondering what to expect. If you take flight with Nextek, we provide:
Gradient Financial Group is a leading financial services company that includes twelve unique entities doing business throughout the country. We’re seeking an energetic crew member for the Salesforce Developer with Nextek. NexTek is a fully functioning software development company in the financial services industry. NexTek creates software applications and solutions to serve the needs of Gradient enrolled Financial Service Providers.
It’s time to take your career to a higher altitude with Gradient Financial Group. Visit https://www.careers.gradientfinancialgroup.com/ to learn more about our values, leadership team, career paths, benefits and more!
Here at Gradient, we take our work and our culture seriously. We frequently come together for food days, friendly competitions, volunteering, and other special events. We also prioritize openness and transparency so that you’re always informed when significant decisions and changes are made.
When charting your next route, you may be wondering what to expect. If you take flight with Nextek, we provide:
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Volunteer time off (VTO)
- Hybrid remote work options
- 401K
- Life Insurance
- Flexible schedules
- Monthly Social Activities
- Casual dress code
- Professional development
Now, you’re probably wondering a little more about what we are looking for, so here it is:
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related field of study or,
- Successful completion and graduation of a related coding boot camp or,
- Demonstration of self-taught, thorough understanding of related programming fundamentals and concepts
- Salesforce Administrator and Platform Developer I certification
- 4 years of Salesforce development experience – Required
- Experience with Sales Cloud – Required
- Salesforce Financial Service Cloud (FSC) Experience – Preferred
- Financial Services industry experience – Preferred
- Proficient knowledge of products and services offered by Nextek and industry
- Proficient knowledge of financial services industry
- Advanced skills in debugging across technologies
- Advanced communication skills with all team members
- Advanced technical skills
- Advanced skills in architecting applications
- Advanced skill in time-management
- Advanced skill in multi-tasking
- Advanced skill with company software
- Ability to work nights, as necessary
- Ability to mentor other developers in their coding
- Ability to coordinate and release code to production
- Ability to listen and consider all views and perspectives
- Ability to communicate tactfully and respectfully with team members
- Ability to handle disagreements professionally
- Ability to identify and resolve critical bugs quickly
- Ability to assess and implement new technologies
- Advanced ability to articulate complex ideas to non-technical roles in a clear and concise manner
- Proficient ability to identify options and present them for decision
- Proficient ability to manage competing resources and priorities
Want some more specifics? If you join the Nextek crew, here’s what you’ll be doing:
- Develop, test, and deploy custom configurations and new Salesforce modules based on evolving business needs
- Manage Salesforce updates, troubleshooting and resolution
- Maintain up to date knowledge of Salesforce functionality, customization and integrations
- Adhere to development standards to ensure code maintainability and collaborative development
- Identify and implement solutions to improve system performance, data integrity and overall user experience
- Collaborate across teams to troubleshoot and resolve integration and development issues within the Salesforce environment
- Scope and implement solutions independently for your product team
- Handle open-ended problems and ambiguity well
- Make strong design decisions based on potential issues, tradeoffs, and risks
- Implement work at appropriate level of abstraction
- Display proficiency in relevant technical skills and maintain a deep understanding of large portions of the codebase
- Ask for guidance in unfamiliar technical areas from the associated experts
- Persist through roadblocks
- Accountable for work from planning and design to maintenance and monitoring
- Self-aware of strengths and weaknesses
- Able to change direction based on company needs
- Understand how users utilize the products we build and show user empathy
- Aware of and input into the vision for future road map of work areas
- Facilitate meaningful discussion around complex problems
- Able to explain complex issues more simply
- Engage in positive, valuable discussions even with conflicting views
- Understand other points of view
- Ensure documentation exists for all critical features
- Accomplish tasks effectively, quickly communicating if issues arise
- Help define processes and best practices
- Increase understanding of impact on other teams
- Share status with all stakeholders and work to remedy communication issues
- Build relationships across engineering, operations, and support teams
- Manage internal and external customer relationships
- Partner with team members to ensure and maintain positive relationship management
- Provide direct correspondence and support for FSP inquiries, including calls, emails and face-to-face
- Assist team members with elevated inquires
- Create presentations, educate and train internal employees
- Promote and implement accurate and up-to-date understanding of trends, best practices, and prevailing attitudes and approaches
- Promote and implement technology enhancements
- Partner to determine, initiate, and lead key initiatives
- Provide suggestions for new or enhanced events and/or services, assist in the development of events/services, and provide ongoing feedback to management
- Create and document current and new processes
- Initiate and work with team members to promote collaboration and team development
- Be a resource to team members to answer advanced questions regarding client correspondence, processes and procedures, compliance, and all other as necessary
- Provide training and insight to team members on best practices
- Assist with cross-training for growth for team members
- All other duties as assigned
Whether your flight begins at our Minnesota or Kansas office, we’re committed to your ascent to your career’s maximum altitude. We help our employees thrive in their chosen field while also encouraging them to explore other parts of our company and the industry. We’re committed to our crew members in a way that truly shows that at Gradient, the sky really is the limit.
