Salesforce Engineer

🌏 London, Manchester or Oxford (Hybrid)

💷 Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme

⏰ Monday – Friday (37.5h pw)

💖 Our perks

🌏25 days holidays (rising to 28 days) plus bank holidays, to take time to recharge and do something you love.
🤸 Hybrid working – you’ll be able to split your time between working in the office and at home.
⭐Mental health care – 6 free counselling sessions via our EAP (Employee Assistance Programme).
🤧Paid sick leave – enhanced sick pay of up to 20 full days in a rolling 12-month period.
👨‍Enhanced family leave – we provide enhanced family leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
🤒Healthcare plan – free healthcare via Vitality for you and your family. You’ll receive money back on health appointments e.g. dental, optical and more.
👍Pension – Oodle will contribute 5% of your salary into your pension pot to help you save for the future.
🥝Free breakfast, drinks and fruit in the office – you can help yourself to cereals, toast, fizzy drinks and lots of fruit.
🤟Employee discounts – discounts you can access anywhere, anytime for all major shops.
👌1 day volunteer day per year – an opportunity to give back to the community each year.

🚗 Oodle – who are we? 🚗

Our mission is to be the UK’s simplest way to find and finance a great value used car. We want to put car buyers back in control and make the car buying experience as simple, straightforward, and joyful as possible as car buyers deserve oodles of car buying confidence!

We are a team of 450 people located in Manchester, Oxford and London. Over the past 6 years, we’ve supported 10,000’s of customers on their car buying journey and know 2023 is shaping up to be another exciting year!

🟢The Team

The Salesforce team is a crucial part of Oodle’s Engineering division. We drive the Salesforce platform and data that integrates to all of our other front-end systems.

The team is made up of 11 Engineers and structured with 8 Salesforce Engineers, 1 Salesforce Business Administrator and 3 QA Engineers. We strive to deliver a high quality on all of our Salesforce and integrated software products, in a fun and social environment.

This role is based in either our London, Oxford or Manchester offices and can be worked in a hybrid manner combining in-person collaboration within the office and Finance team and remote/home working.

We are incredibly inclusive and open to most adaptations to working patterns, which can be discussed during the interview process.

🙌 The Role

Salesforce Engineer at Oodle Car Finance.

A Salesforce Engineer works with the product teams to develop software products in line with the project management goals and contributes to the design and development of any work needing to be done by the team with regards to Salesforce, while ensuring that code is in line with the general ethos and approach to development of the Salesforce platform.

Your day to day work will be a mix of product development, support and documentation which may include:

Build and support new and existing Salesforce applications using technologies such as Apex and Lightning Web Component to leverage the full capabilities of the Salesforce platform and enable critical integrations and company initiatives.
Actively contribute to the adoption of strong software architecture, development best practices, and new methods and frameworks
Translate business requirements into effective technical designs and implementation.
Assist in identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving defects encountered during various stages of project delivery, including during the deployment and implementation of the solution in production environments.

About you

Experience is one thing, but potential is far more important so, even if you lack some of the skills listed below, we still really want to hear from you.

Essential Requirements for the Role

Experience developing on the Salesforce Platform using both declarative and coded solutions.
An understanding of Lightning UX and configuring Salesforce for agent efficiency, using standard Salesforce features and Lightning Components.
Experience using a development IDE such as VSCode or IntelliJ.
Experience using Git or an equivalent source control system.
Experience in using integration technologies such as REST and SOAP.
Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I or equivalent demonstrable experience
Jira and Confluence

Nice to have:

Exposure to development on Service Cloud implementations
Exposure to development on Marketing Cloud implementations
Exposure to Salesforce DX source format and usage of Salesforce CLI for both development and continuous integration
Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II

👩‍💻 Hiring Process

☎️ Preliminary Interview (30 mins)
📲 Video Interview (30 mins) with one of our Head of Product
🔦 Final Interview (1 hour) Technical interview with the HIring managers.

💚 Our Values

Our values are our personal brand and lay the foundation of what we care about the most. They provide us with guidance, so we can work towards the same goals. They are our DNA and are kept at the forefront of our Oodler’s mind when making business decisions.

Embrace being human – empathy and diversity make us stronger
Strive for awesome – it’s awesome when we do better every day
Everyone’s a builder – we’re in this together and we win as a team
Bravely honest – we’re honest with ourselves and everyone else
Think customer – they’re at the heart of everything we do

To find out more about our culture and what happens at Oodle check out our LinkedIn and Instagram.

Oodle is proud to be an inclusive workplace and we recognise diversity of experience, thoughts and backgrounds leads to better customer outcomes and an environment where our colleagues can thrive. We have several DEI networks which are made up of our ‘Oodlers’ who strive to make positive impacts to our cultures.

We’d love if you could submit your application online, but if you need an alternative method or need reasonable adjustments to take part in the interview process please email careers@oodlefinance.com

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