Job description
About us:
In the words of Inc. Magazine, “Web Summit is the largest technology conference in the world”. Forbes says Web Summit is “the best tech conference on the planet”, Bloomberg calls it “Davos for geeks”, Politico “the Olympics of tech”, and the Guardian “Glastonbury for geeks”.
Whatever Web Summit is, it wouldn’t be possible without an incredible team of more than 240 employees, including world-class engineers, data scientists, designers, producers, marketers, salespeople and more.
We’ve disrupted an old industry by building incredible software and designing mind-blowing events. We’ve revolutionised how people come together in our world. We started with one event: Web Summit. But now we’re creating category-defining events all over the world, from Asia to North America.
We’re just getting started.
About the team
We’re looking for a Salesforce Lightning Developer to join the CRM team in Websummit.
At Web Summit we believe that the power of data and engineering can be applied to every facet of our events to make the attendee experience excellent, so whatever projects you work on you’ll work closely with our UX engineers, data scientists, event engineers and web developers across all our conferences: Web Summit in Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro, and Collision in Toronto.
What you’ll achieve at Web Summit:
- You'll work closely with our CRM team, supporting and facilitating real change within the company
- Work closely with our stakeholders in sales, marketing, attendee success and engineering teams to capture and implement better user experiences for internal and external customers through lightning
- Implement new and improve existing business processes through better automation
- Drive our rollout from salesforce classic to lightning
- You should have a good understanding of when salesforce configuration options are desirable over custom code
- You must have experience writing apex triggers and lightning components.
- Ideally you should have experience migrating legacy visualforce pages to lightning
- Ideally you should have experience in middleware / integration solutions delivering scalable and robust integrations between business systems
Required skills:
- Salesforce certified app builder and platform developer 1
- Excellent problem solving capabilities
- 4+ years of Salesforce development experience
- Strong salesforce apex and lightning development skills
- Experience of all phases of the software development lifecycle
- Experience with building Salesforce solutions based on user stories and low level designs
- Hands on design and development of custom solutions on the force.com platform
- Strong customer facing skills
Desirable skills/Nice to haves:
- B.Sc or M.Sc in a computer related field or equivalent commercial experience
- Salesforce certified JavaScript developer 1, platform developer 2, integration architect or related superbadges
- Experience converting user stories into technical tasks
- UI / UX design
- Knowledge and experience with release management, CI/CD and git
- Experience applying appropriate release management approaches (ant, salesforce dx etc)
Benefits and perks:
- Hybrid working model benefit open to all employees.
- Fully subsidised healthcare, dental, employee assistance programme(EAP) and more.
- A dedicated in house L&D department, with access to workshops, online learning and resources to help you excel in your career development.
- Company laptop, generous annual leave and flexible working arrangements.
- Our very own “Tramway team” who drive community and morale boosting events for employees to participate in.
- Annual company get togethers, company charity days and monthly wellbeing talks.
At Web Summit, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We want talent from all walks of life to help us on our journey to digitise the conference sector. Hiring decisions are made purely on experience, skills and the needs of the business.
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