Senior Engineer - Salesforce Sales Cloud

Our Purpose 

At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

About the team you’ll join

The Grow domain sits within Xero’s Customer Platforms group and manages the Sales & Marketing Technology for Xero. Within Grow, our remit is focused on Customer Acquisition and Engagement. We work with stakeholders to enable new capabilities helping Xero scale and improve our external customers and internal users experience.

We work with systems like, Salesforce Sales Cloud (CRM), Marketing Cloud, Qualtrics, CRM Analytics and other tools to better enable Xero to achieve their strategic objectives.

What you'll do:

• Enhance and support the use of Salesforce Sales Cloud, Experience Cloud and the core Salesforce platform, ensuring sustainable and excellent engineering practices
• Collaborate closely with various teams across the Salesforce platform to design and deliver initiatives aimed at improving customer engagement
• Develop software applications within our Salesforce Core product suite, including new and existing applications, to create better experiences for both internal and external customers
• Establish and maintain trust and credibility with a wide range of internal stakeholders and support teams
• Develop custom solutions and interfaces on top of the Salesforce platform

What you'll bring:

• Previous experience developing custom applications on the Salesforce platform
• Proven ability to develop and optimize integrated business processes across disparate systems
• Understanding of the Salesforce product suite, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud and AppExchange solutions
• Proficient in Apex, Flows, SOQL, Triggers, Lightning Web Components, Platform Events, and API integrations
• Proficient with Salesforce Experience Cloud LWC’s, Front-End tooling and JavaScript Frameworks.
• Experience with Salesforce development tools, source control, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) processes and environments.
• Configuration experience using the Salesforce point-and-click application administration interface
• Ability to perform automated testing and write unit tests

Why Xero

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset.

Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.

Xero is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer and Rainbow Tick certified too.