eightfold.ai Hiring for Staff Salesforce Engineer at bangalore, India Full Time

Eightfold (https://eightfold.ai/) was founded with a vision to solve for employment in our society. For decades, the connection between individuals and opportunities has been based on who the individuals are and the strength of their network, vs. their potential. Eightfold leverages artificial intelligence to transform how to think about skills and capabilities for individuals as well as how jobs and career decisions are made. Eightfold offers the industry’s first AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform to transform how organizations plan, hire, develop and retain a diverse workforce, enabling individuals to transform their careers.

To date, Eightfold AI has received more than $410 million in funding and a valuation of over $2B (https://eightfold.ai/blog/eightfold-ai-raises-220m/) from leading investors to further our mission of finding the right career for everyone in the world. If you are passionate about solving one of the most fundamental challenges of our society – employment, working on hard business problems, and being part of an amazing growth story – Eightfold is the place to be!

You may want to refer to the media coverage on TechCrunch and Reuters. (https://www.reuters.com/business/talent-matching-startup-eightfold-ai-raises-220-mln-round-led-by-softbank-vision-2021-06-10/) 
Eightfold.ai is led by Ashutosh Garg, a PhD in Machine Learning/IIT Delhi alumni who managed Search and Personalization at Google, and Varun Kacholia-IIT Bombay alumni, who led the News Feed Ranking team at Facebook and developed YouTube Search at Google.

Our customers- https://eightfold.ai/customers/customer-stories/

Press- https://eightfold.ai/about/pres (https://eightfold.ai/about/press/)

Staff Salesforce Engineer:

What Will You Do

• Leading and Architecting the design and development of Salesforce solutions, including customizations, programming, and data migrations.

• Participate in the planning and execution of Salesforce projects and initiatives

• Lead, prioritize KTLO / Enhancements track of work items and ensure delivery

• Lead and mentor junior and senior developers in technical and functional areas to ensure our Salesforce solutions are scalable, maintainable and aligned with our enterprise architecture and best practices.

• Promoting best practices, performing solution and code reviews, and ensuring appropriate design patterns are being followed.

• Work with GTM systems team / RevOps & business stakeholders to define requirements of Salesforce system enhancements. Identify opportunities to modify requirements to utilize application best practices, provide scalability, ensure data hygiene, and increase user adoption.

• Identify technical debts and provide a design to overcome / restructure the implementation without impacting the existing functionalities.

• Stay up-to-date with Salesforce releases and features, and identify opportunities for innovation and improvement in our Salesforce solutions

• Use Agile/Scrum methodologies to deliver best-in-class enhancements of Salesforce / CPQ / Communities / PRM. Attend daily stand-ups, sprint planning sessions, and retrospectives, and required ceremonies to plan, track, and code development tasks.

• Design, develop, test, and deploy solutions using Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components, Salesforce CPQ, API, Flows and other Salesforce development tools.

• Ensure that our Salesforce solutions are secure, reliable and available to our users

• Work within Salesforce customization standards for Administrators and Developers to balance between rapid development and long-term code maintainability.

• Participate in reviewing, debugging, and resolving issues with new or existing code.

• Coordinate post-delivery activities such as hypercare support, delivery documentation, and knowledge transfer to our Enterprise Support team.

• Comfortable building and demonstrating proof of concepts in Salesforce

• Experience defining systems strategy, road-map, developing process flow diagrams, developing systems requirements, designing, testing, driving UAT sessions, deploying solutions using version controls, training, defining support procedures, and implementing practical business solutions

• Monitor Salesforce performance and identify areas for improvement and optimization

• Writing functional and technical design documents.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience implementing SFDC CRM capabilities.

• Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Salesforce CPQ, Experience cloud product knowledge

• Experience developing customer-facing interfaces.

• Data analysis, data governance and logical thinking skills are a must.

• Advanced proficiency in Salesforce development tools, such as Apex, Triggers, JavaScript, VisualForce, LWC, SOQL, REST API, Bulk API etc.,

• In-depth knowledge of Salesforce architectures, data models, and best practices.

• Experience with the Life Cycle of Development including Salesforce Deployment/Packaging using Metadata API, Version Control, ChangeSet and code coverage

• Proficient with flows, approvals, email to case, entitlements, sandbox configurations and other admin configurations.

• Knowledge of security and governance (profiles, permission sets, data visibility, sharing settings )

• Able to collaborate and communicate effectively with business stakeholders / other Salesforce team members.

• Ability to solve problems, high-level software and application issues.

• Ability to lead the team and the project, ensuring delivery within deadlines.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

• Ability to work on your own and manage multiple task assignments

• Solid verbal and written communication skills, including presentation skills

• Solid problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment

Good to have:

• Middleware integration tool exposure

• Salesforce Certifications.