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Gusto is growing our Revenue Business Systems team and looking for a dynamic, visionary business technology developer! You'll design, build, and administer our Salesforce and automation platforms for our Sales, Service, and Marketing teams.
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:
Solution Architecture & Design
- Provide architectural oversight and strategic guidance for all Revenue business systems projects, ensuring solutions alignment with long-term business objectives.
- Design comprehensive solutions by translating complex business needs into detailed user stories, functional specifications, and clear acceptance criteria.
- Maintain a deep understanding of technical architecture across multiple domains and coding implications to effectively guide development teams and inform design decisions.
Custom Development & Integration
- Hands-on develop, test and deploy end-to-end solutions on the Salesforce platform, primarily leveraging Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), and Visualforce.
- Implement and manage seamless integrations between internal business systems and external applications using REST APIs.
- Lead the technical delivery of custom development, integrations, and data migration.
Stakeholder Engagement & Requirements Analysis
- Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, facilitating discussions to gather, define, and refine project requirements.
- Lead requirement-gathering sessions and workshops to elicit detailed needs and propose viable, scalable solutions on the business system platforms.
Quality Assurance & Process Management
- Uphold highest development standards by actively participating in peer code reviews and ensuring strict adherence to established best practices and deployment protocols.
System Maintenance & Optimization
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex technical issues and performance flaws to ensure high availability and efficiency of revenue systems.
Here's what we are looking for:
- Expert knowledge of Salesforce systems architecture and design patterns.
- Deep knowledge and experience with Salesforce's suite of products across all SDLC phases.
- Good experience with 3rd party connected applications, system design and build.
- Strong proficiency with Force.com Platform skills like Apex, Flows, Lightning, UI (LWC/Visualforce), SOQL, Unit Testing etc.
- Thorough understanding of SaaS data models, design considerations and connected web services.
- Good understanding of Salesforce DX, source-driven development using Git/Github or similar version control system, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery as part of DevOps process.
- 8+ years of experience building custom solutions on Salesforce.
- 5+ years of experience integrating business applications using platforms like Mulesoft, Snaplogic, Workato etc and APIs.
- 3+ years of mentoring and training junior developers and administrators.
- Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I and II, Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder, and/or Salesforce Certified System Architect (or equivalent) are highly preferred.
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science/Math or equivalent practical experience.
- Passionate about helping small business owners and converting pain points into solutions.
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $165,000-184,000 in Denver, $180,000-200,000 in Los Angeles, & most remote locations, and $200,000-223,000 for San Francisco, & New York, and Seattle, and $171,000-191,000 CAD for Toronto. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.
Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.
When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.
Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.
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Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 400,000 businesses.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.
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