Senior Developer/Engineer - Salesforce Sales Cloud

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

About the team you’ll join

The Grow domain sits within Xero’s Customer Platforms group and manages the Sales & Marketing Technology for Xero. Within Grow, our remit is focused on Customer Acquisition and Engagement. We work with stakeholders to enable new capabilities helping Xero scale and improve our external customers and internal users experience.

We work with systems like, Salesforce Sales Cloud (CRM), Marketing Cloud, Qualtrics, CRM Analytics and other tools to better enable Xero to achieve their strategic objectives. We are New Zealand’s largest and most comprehensive Salesforce implementation working with a team of experienced and certified Salesforce professionals.

What you'll do

• Enhance and support the use of Salesforce Sales Cloud, Experience Cloud and the core Salesforce platform, ensuring sustainable and excellent engineering practices.

• Collaborate closely with various teams across the Salesforce platform to design and deliver initiatives aimed at improving customer engagement.

• Develop software applications within our Salesforce Core product suite, including new and existing applications, to create better experiences for both internal and external customers.

• Establish and maintain trust and credibility with a wide range of internal stakeholders and support teams.

• Develop custom solutions and interfaces on top of the Salesforce platform

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of experience developing custom applications on the Salesforce platform.

• Proven ability to develop and optimize integrated business processes across disparate systems

• Understanding of the Salesforce product suite including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud and AppExchange solutions

• Proficient in Apex, Flows, SOQL, Triggers, Lightning Web Components, Platform Events, and API integrations

• Proficient with Salesforce Experience Cloud LWC’s, Front-End tooling and JavaScript Frameworks.

• Experience with Salesforce development tools, source control, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) processes and environments.

• Configuration experience using the Salesforce point-and-click application administration interface

• Ability to perform automated testing and write unit tests

• Active Salesforce certifications or ability to achieve relevant certifications upon hire (Platform App Builder, Platform Developer I, and Javascript). Architect-level certifications a plus (e.g., Identity and Access Management Architect, Sharing and Visibility, others)

Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience. If you are excited about this role, and your experience doesnʼt align, we encourage you to apply. You could be the right person for a role.

Additional Information

Why Xero?

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.