Lead Salesforce Engineer

Job Description:

Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company’s mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.

Rakuten Advertising provides advertising technology and consumer insights to the world’s leading brands and retailers. Working with agencies and brands around the world, Rakuten Advertising unites technology, client strategy and consumer insights to deliver advertising experiences that drive increased brand awareness and marketing performance. With access to Rakuten’s diverse media properties and audiences, combined with an award-winning performance network and proprietary consumer research, Rakuten Advertising creates the right conditions to reach new customers and sustain long-lasting loyalty.

At Rakuten Advertising, Salesforce is a crucial component of how we run our organization. It acts not only as a CRM, but also as our source of truth for all business needs and data. As we enter the next phase of our growth, Rakuten Advertising is looking to improve, simplify, and optimize our operations, including our Salesforce instance.

We are looking for a full-time Lead Salesforce Engineer who wants to use their skills to influence critical business operations by designing and scaling the internal systems architecture used to run our operations. You will have direct influence on the company by helping drive productivity, efficiency, and insights for the commercial organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Expertise in APEX, Visualforce, Aura Components, Lightning Component Framework, and Flows.

• Ability to develop and maintain Salesforce applications, leveraging the full capabilities of the SF platform.

• Skilled in creating/modifying controllers, controller extensions, and triggers.

• Experience in creating and executing unit, integration, and user acceptance test plans.

• Strong skills in collecting business requirements and translating them into well-architected solutions.

• Proficient in analyzing and documenting functional and technical requirements.

• Capable of providing detailed project plans, including assessing benefits and risks.

• Ability to work collaboratively with Finance, Product Operations, Marketing, Sales, and other teams.

• Willingness to produce tangible deliverables like requirements specifications and project plans.

• Responsible for creating defined coding standards and developing maintainable code.

• Committed to researching and utilizing Salesforce best practices to enhance system productivity and scalability.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)
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