The Role

The Salesforce Engineer at Athena is part of a squad with a well-defined mission and ships high quality code and solutions to the challenges of helping customers reach their financial independence more quickly.

Key responsibilities

• Designing and implementing software solutions.
• Testing the stability and functionality of the application.
• Reviewing and collaborating with others on internal and cross-team technical proposals.
• Performing configuration and customization of the Salesforce platform.
• Collaborating to our API layer using a micro-services architecture and components on public cloud infrastructure.
• Continuously increasing efficiency and quality of the team through tooling and experimentation.
• Collaborating with everyone in an open and constructive way.
• Operating the platform products offered by the team.
• Production support the Salesforce platform as well as across AWS services with support from other team members

About You

• You are a skilful engineer with high standards, passion for quality and a handful of years of experience under your belt.
• You are adaptable and keen to learn new languages when necessary but already competent and comfortable developing with APEX and Lightning Web Components (LWC).
• You have experience with web service technology (REST / SOAP / GQL, JSON / XML, etc).
• You either have experience building services using Node.js with Typescript and AWS or really keen to upskill and learn.
• You have great interpersonal and communication skills.
• You can troubleshoot issues in production, help determine root causes and propose the most appropriate solution for the situation.
• You can collaborate with software engineers, product owners and other IT staff members in order to understand the goals, derive/adapt requirements and implement solutions.
• You are comfortable working in an Agile, fast-paced DevOps environment.
• You are a problem-solver and embrace the can-do.
• You are a team player.
• You are keen to learn and get comfortable with new technologies.
• You proactively engage on continuous improvement efforts for application design, support and development efforts.
• You preferably have BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field.

What a successful candidate looks like

• Capacity to think holistically and see the bigger picture.
• Solid writing and communication skills.
• Experience with public cloud providers is a plus. AWS is a plus-plus and highly desired.
• Experience with writing backend code using Apex REST highly desired.
• Be great, be you, play nice!

Benefits & Perks

• Inclusive, Flexible and casual working environment
• Hybrid working with HQ Anchor Days in award winning office space
• Wellbeing program to support your physical, mental, social and financial health
• Perks program with access to discounts to every day expenses
• Fantastic team culture with monthly events

You'll be joining an experienced team, passionate about being best in class in everything we do. We have a relaxed and fun atmosphere where you can bring your unique self and skills to help us all grow as a team. Be great, be you, play nice.

At Athena we are committed to a workplace that embraces diversity, equality, and inclusion. Athenians are free to let their own brand of freak fly.

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