Job Detail

The Opportunity

EF Education First has an immediate opening for a Senior Salesforce Developer on the EF International Language Campuses technology team based in our beautiful new headquarters in Zurich. You will be responsible for developing end to end solutions that will directly impact the efficiency and overall success of our sales staff around the world. 

Your role will include collaborating with Salesforce Product Owners, Solution Architects, Developers, and Admins to develop new features and to optimize existing processes. You will work hands-on with local and remote development teams to deliver projects and ensure high quality solutions.

 As a foundation of your skills you have a strong previous OOD background in .NET or JAVA, and experience working across the full stack in large and complex enterprise systems. You have complemented this strong foundation with your skills as Salesforce Developers becoming well versed over the last years on the Salesforce platform.

If you are excited about tackling and solving tough problems; if you want to be part of a fast-paced work environment and work inside the support structure of a global enterprise; if you want to be a front runner in changing how our EF conducts business through technology and design - then this position is for you.

Responsibilities

• Development of our new Salesforce implementation, collaborating within your team and across other agile teams to implement best-in-class solutions.


• Embrace agile best practices, software development methodologies, and CI/CD practices.


• Integrate your system with other systems developed by teams located both in-house and remotely, coordinating development strategies and common activities that impact other teams


• Execute on the delivery of Salesforce.com projects/integrations from a technical point of view & provide input on the tradeoffs with technology and feasibility and help make choices that fit the constraints of the projects.


• Direct involvement in developing business requirements, specifications, process flows, application design, application configuration, testing and release management.


• Manage Salesforce.com technical environments to ensure safe, secure and organized deployment of projects/code/configuration & administer system releases using standardized release management techniques via Salesforce DX and Git.

Mindset and Interpersonal Skills

• You have excellent communication skills – not just spoken but also written


• You are a team player – who is part of a successful cross-functional team having a composition of developers, QAs, BAs and admins


• Most importantly, you are sensitive to cultural differences in globally spread teams


• Have strong attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related Engineering discipline.


• At least 6 years of software development and integration experience with .NET or JAVA.


• At least 2 years of Salesforce.com development experience.


• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge and enterprise integration paradigms.


• Knowledge of software best practices like Refactoring, Clean Code, Domain Driven Design, SOLID principles, etc.


• Demonstrative success with at least one large Salesforce.com implementation/integration project.


• Excellent knowledge of Salesforce.com architecture and data model.


• Hands-on experience in Web services and REST API development.

About us

EF Education First is a global education company focusing on language, academic, cultural exchange, and educational travel programs. We are 46,500 staff, faculty and teachers, working in over 580 offices and schools across 52 countries, and having a global presence in 116 countries. While we continue to grow, we strive to stay small so as to ensure agility, smart thinking and a fun place to work. For the past 54 years, EF has grown to include a range of programs that give students of all ages the freedom and confidence to explore the world through language, travel and education. 

EF is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  References will be followed up and will ask specifically whether there is any reason that the applicant should not be engaged in situations where they have responsibility for, or substantial access to, persons under 18.  Upon interview all gaps in CVs must be explained satisfactorily and proof of identity and, where applicable, qualifications will be required. Appropriate suitability checks will be required prior to confirmation of appointment.