Description

Senior Software Engineer - Salesforce

Hybrid: This means the successful candidate is expected to report onsite at the GM Global Technical Center in Warren (MI) or the GM IT Innovation Center at Austin (TX) three days per week, at minimum. This position can be located at either of these 2 locations.

The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at General Motors, you will be an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, scalable way in the Force.com platform.  As a core technology contributor, you will be responsible for designing and developing critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas to support the organization’s business objectives.

Digital Products Engineering (DPE) Commerce enables commerce between General Motors, GM Dealers, and Consumers. From online vehicle shopping to service scheduling to buying parts, accessories, and digital experiences, DPE Commerce focuses on every phase of commerce.

What You will Do:

• Work in a fast-paced environment with business, technology, and designers to build new capabilities, platforms, features and improving existing capabilities.

• Responsible for customizing, developing, and supporting solutions on the force.com platform.

• Drive Salesforce enhancements and improvements.

• Build integrations between salesforce and other internal systems to automate business processes.

• Develop Apex (classes and triggers) and Java Script, Lightning Components, Lightning Web Components, Visualforce, Flows, Omni Script and Flex Cards to extend Salesforce.

• Verify solutions by writing and executing automated test classes.

• Collaborate, mentor and guide other engineers within the team.

• Well-developed interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills including the ability to negotiate, advise, influence others, and work collaboratively.

• Document and analyze processes, procedures, and ensure code is properly documented.

• Create and maintain a code repository to ensure a seamless deployment process for all team members.

• Stay current on the latest trends and Salesforce releases.

• Self-directed, can solve business problems from inception to implementation, can solve business problems without explicit direction.

Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in programming and configuring with Force.com Apex (classes and triggers), Lightning Components, Lightning Web Components, Visualforce, Flows, Omni Script, Flex Cards, JavaScript (ES6), ReactJS or similar platforms.

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science (CS), Electronics or a related field.

• 5 plus years of software development experience.

• Extensive experience in designing and developing large scale technology solutions with substantial insights into Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Communities.

• Extensive understanding of Object Oriented (OO) design patterns.

• Salesforce Administrator certification.

• Excellent understanding of Salesforce's SOQL and SOSL, Security model, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Chatter and Force.com product offerings.

• Design experience in Salesforce Lightning UI Understanding of various user-based security models.

• Experience with database concepts and data modeling design.

• Extensive knowledge in modeling and application design and architecture.

• Able to identify platform risks, issues and dependencies and communicate strategic risk to business executives and drive the mitigation across the business.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including, but not limited to Data migration, Testing, Pre-build, Integration, and adapt to changing project needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce Service, Sales, Platform Developer I, Platform Developer II, Platform App Builder certifications are a plus.

• Experience in automated testing (unit testing and functional testing) Strong Knowledge of Web Services (SOAP and REST).

• Exposure to AWS, Azure and SQL is a plus.

• Experience with system migrations.

• Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles and tools like Copado.

• Creative, flexible, and willing to continuously change, evolve, and improve software development processes.

• Strong time management skills and communication/leadership skills.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us 

We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

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