Salesforce Engineer

About Faire

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local ?" there are over 2 million independent retailers in North America and Europe doing more than $2 trillion in revenue. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town ?" we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.

By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. We're looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.

About this role

Faire is revolutionizing wholesale and helping local retailers and their suppliers be relevant and successful in a technology enabled era. We are a highly data-driven organization with a rapidly expanding sales and success team on both sides of the marketplace. The ideal candidate for this role will be able to take ownership of maintaining our sales and success systems and implementing improvements that will help us to drive continued volume growth and enable our sales and success teams to be highly effective and efficient.

As Salesforce Developer, you'll be responsible for the design of various aspects of SFDC solutions and integrations with other systems and tools. The Salesforce Developer will partner closely with GTM teams to understand the challenges and gaps in the process and proactively recommend innovative solutions. You will communicate technical solutions and design tradeoffs effectively to business partners, and lead digital transformation by aligning business, technology and new tech implementation efforts.

We are looking for an innovative and entrepreneurial technical specialist who will be thrilled to roll up their sleeves and help us continuously improve our processes as we scale.

This role will collaborate with stakeholders from a breadth of functional groups within Faire, including engineering, product, and marketing. This role will have tremendous impact on the success of Faire by ensuring we are using our sales and success tools (Salesforce, SalesLoft, Zendesk, etc.), and all of our data effectively as we scale and thus will be critical to the company's long-term success

What you'll do

• Deliver system capabilities and enhancements through a mixture of customization and code development to best fit the company's complex and evolving business requirements
• Partner with Sales, Success, Business Operations, Success, Product teams, and business partners to solve critical business problems through system implementation
• Maintain the current Salesforce instance and find opportunities to improve architecture for scale
• Understand and leverage the Salesforce provided APIs
• Prepare solution design documents for complex projects involving sales and success workflows, custom integrations, and data migration
• Perform gap analysis between Salesforce functionality and requirement of the partners
• Manage new releases of SFDC and efficiently roll out new features to the wider org
• Lead implementation and administration of the SFDC and 3rd party systems connected to Salesforce (Salesforce, Hubspot, Salesloft, Zendesk, Zoominfo, Calendly, and Gong)
• Integrate other tools and platforms with SFDC to increase business efficiency and data flow accuracy: APIs, App Exchange Integration products
• Partner with operations teams to conduct workflow improvements scoping and analysis

Qualifications

• 4+ years of operations experience, preferably supporting Sales or Customer Success Orgs in the fast paced startup environment
• 5+ years of Salesforce Developer or general sales cloud custom development using declarative and programmatic customizations: dashboards, reporting, data loader, SOQL query building, Tableau/Looker/Mode
• Deep knowledge of Salesforce object model, Salesforce platform, APEX and Salesforce Development best practices
• Ability to build, modify, and use Apex Classes, Controllers and Triggers, Visualforce, LWC, Aura, Force.com IDE, Migration Tools, Web Services
• Experience developing business processes aligned to leading practices implementation patterns within Sales Cloud
• Ability to clearly communicate technical information to technical & non-technical partners
• Track record of working independently in a high velocity and agile environment
• SQL knowledge

Why you'll love working at Faire

• We are entrepreneurs: Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team is an owner of the business and taking part in the founding process.
• We are using technology and data to level the playing field: We are leveraging the power of product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners.
• We build products our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie - not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy.
• We are curious and resourceful: Inquisitive by default, we explore every possibility, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions to the challenges at hand. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first principles mentality.

Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We're backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Toronto, London, New York, LA, and Sao Paulo. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog.

Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.