Junior Salesforce Developer
at H.W. Kaufman Group

H.W. Kaufman Group and its largest business unit, Burns & Wilcox, is replacing or retooling its application portfolio to integrate our suppliers, clients, and employees using Salesforce/Vlocity, MuleSoft, Azure, and multiple other endpoints with real-time and near real-time interfaces. This is a high-visibility and transformative initiative for the Kaufman companies. This is a junior level/remote role part of our pair programming team, eventually becoming a full-stack developer. Salesforce is the focus, and we will train. Will have the opportunity to learn other technology stacks such as MuleSoft, .Net depending on projects assigned.

Responsibilities

1. The Salesforce Developer is responsible for collaborating with a team of IT professionals in understanding and supporting the businesses through the design, development and implementation of Salesforce applications, application enhancements, and new platform capabilities
2. Translates business and technical requirements into solution designs that satisfy the business needs and comply with approved standards. Reviews functional specifications, creates detailed technical design and technical specifications.
3. Ensures development activities are aligned with scope, schedule, priority, and business objectives
4. Oversees code development and unit and performance testing activities. 
5. Responsible for the development lifecycle from analysis and design to configuration, coding, testing, and deployment while adhering to current System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes
6. Perform and/or assist others in validating the solution performs as expected. This includes and is not limited to system integration testing, performance testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing and defect remediation.
7. Troubleshooting and fixing bugs in the system

Qualifications

1. Bachelor degree in computer science, information technology, or equivalent work experience required
2. Salesforce experience is not required; any object-oriented programming language experience is acceptable
3. 1+ years of professional development experience, or 0 years & a computer science degree
4. Looking for great attitude, willingness to work in a group, team player, participate in pair programming as the primary work pattern and willingness to become a full-stack developer

About Our Company

H.W. Kaufman Group is a powerful global network of companies dedicated to shaping the future of insurance. With thousands of dedicated professionals across an extensive network of over 60 offices around the world, we lead by offering innovative solutions that are at the forefront of the industry. We are privately owned and thus free from the influence of Wall Street. This allows us the ability to adapt to constantly fluctuating market conditions. From brokerage, underwriting, and real estate to claims, loss control and risk management services, our depth of services is unrivaled.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The H.W. Kaufman Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other status or condition protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

In addition, Kaufman will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.