Overview

Founded in 2002 American Auto Shield is headquartered in CO, we specialize in 3rd party administration, providing nationwide coverage and claims services for vehicle and home service contracts offered through dealers, agents, direct marketers, membership organizations and lenders.

We continue to experience tremendous growth, which equates to fantastic opportunities for our employees. As an experienced, energetic, Salesforce Engineer: You will play a key role in maximizing the efficacy of our Salesforce application. In this role, you will be responsible for the design, development, testing of bugs fixes and new features, and integrations. You will work as a collaborative team member within a multi-platform team. Your contributions will directly impact the growth and future of American Auto Shield.

Our five values are the heartbeat of American Auto Shield. These values are integrity, respectful, accountable, collaborative, and innovative.

The Sr. Software Engineer - Salesforce earns competitive compensation from $140,000*

This is a REMOTE position unless residing locally to our Lakewood, CO or St. Peters, MO office. 

Responsibilities

What You Will Do in This Role

• Develop scalable applications that solves real business challenges with intuitive design.
• Write software that is easy for anyone to maintain and is highly testable.
• Participate in an agile development environment and contributing to the success of agile ceremonies.
• Develop and implement integrations between Salesforce and other systems using APIs, web services, and middleware solutions.
• Perform unit testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of solutions on the Salesforce platform to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Build lightning web components
• Build custom triggers and external tools to maintain data, import and export data, and for application integrity.
• Proactively engage on continuous improvement efforts for application design, support, and practice development efforts.
• Participate in the planning/analysis of business requirements for system changes and enhancements.
• Collaborate to identify business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Mentor less-experienced software engineers.

Qualifications

What You Need to Join Our Team

REQUIRED:

• Considerable professional software engineering experience in Salesforce.
• Ability to take initiative, understand the big picture, compromise, weigh pros and cons of decisions, and assess risk.
• Expert proficiency in Apex, Lightning Web Components, SOQL and SOSL.
• Experience with Salesforce declarative tools such as Flow and Validation Rules.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce data model, security model, and sharing rules.
• Experience with Salesforce integration tools and techniques, such as REST/SOAP APIs, and External Objects.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Considerable experience writing and maintaining code assets such as apex classes, lightning web components, triggers.
• Considerable experience building custom triggers, salesforce events, and external tools to maintain data, import and export data, and for application integrity.
• Considerable experience building unit testing standards well above and beyond purely meeting Salesforce code coverage requirements.
• Experience writing Lightning Web Components and/or comfortable in a current JavaScript framework
• The ability to hardwire your computer to a router or ethernet jack.
• Internet speed a minimum of 50 MBps download and 10 MBps upload.

RECOMMENDED EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Salesforce Platform Developer I & II
• Salesforce Platform Developer Architect
• Salesforce Platform App Builder

Why work for us? We are excited to provide:

• Competitive compensation from $140,000*
• Discretionary Bonus opportunity
• Comprehensive benefits package
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Short/Long Term Disability
  • Life Insurance
  • Flex Spending Account
• 401 (k) – company matches 4%- fully vested when eligibility starts**
• 80 Hours Year 1 of PTO
• 48 hours of Paid Sick/Wellbeing Time Off 
• Employee Assistance Program
• Voluntary Benefits
  • Pet Insurance
  • Life Insurance
• Wellness Program
• Employee recognition program
• Satisfaction of work with a highly skilled team that makes a big impact company-wide
• Remote work environment

Job LocationAlthough this position is remote, American Auto Shield is only set up to hire employees in certain states. To be considered for this role, you will need to have permanent residence in one of the following states:

• Arizona
• Colorado
• Florida
• Indiana
• Kentucky
• Missouri
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia

*Individual compensation packages are based on various factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other job-related aspects.**Eligible the first of the month after the 1st 90 days