Overview:
Have you ever attended a Salesforce event and been wowed by the product demonstrations? That's our team, and we're hiring!
The Demo Team is looking for a Software Engineer who will inspire the team to push the boundaries of enterprise software and create the never before seen. You are passionate about technology and developing digital AND physical experiences.
In your role as a Software Engineer, your day-to-day will consist of creating visually engaging and innovative demos. You will complement the digital experience with tactile elements. This position requires someone who has great technical understanding as well as interpersonal skills to work with many different departments within the company. You’ll spend time with product teams designing and prototyping future features and product launches of Salesforce products. You're naturally curious and experiment with technologies like AI, robotics, image processing, beacons, AR, blockchain and more. We're always looking at how to push Salesforce products to empower people to solve more of the world's challenges.
In addition to software design and development, you will travel on-site to many of our major events to help make sure our keynotes are successfully executed. This can require up to 2 months of travel a year. A typical year can include week long trips to London, Paris, Sydney, Tokyo, Chicago, San Francisco, New York and many other major cities where Salesforce events take place.
Join our team of dreamers & doers and get ready to create high quality, interactive product visions that will be experienced by customers, business leaders and technologists all around the world.
Responsibilities:
- Partner closely with executives, product management, and other product & industry marketers to understand the product strategy and distill key functionality and benefits into engaging demo experiences
- Work with the broader Demo Team to develop innovative and compelling/palpable stories and demonstrations that showcase the power of Salesforce
- Ideate and build prototypes for important Salesforce product launches
- Own the architecture of software prototypes and physical experiences for all major Salesforce keynotes
- Wake up everyday thinking about how we tell more engaging stories that include tactile experiences in our event keynotes & campground and the Salesforce Innovation Center
- Keep current with technology trends. Understand how emerging technology can be incorporated into our keynotes
- Management of vendors as needed
Requirements:
- Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.)
- 3+ years software development experience from SaaS / Product based companies.
- Expertise in front-end development (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
- Experience with modern Javascript technologies such as: Angular, React, Vue, Node etc.
- Familiarity with tools such as Git, Heroku, and AWS
- Driven, self-motivated, and flexible team player with proven ability to lead/inspire through influence
- Creative thinker that can generate innovative ideas and lead a cross-functional team to drive execution
- A proven track record in the design, development and delivery of creative and engineering concepts
- Experience implementing from concept to production through field installation for small to medium projects
- Willingness to travel for major domestic and international Salesforce events, up to 2 months a year
Skills Desired:
- Experience developing for web based and native mobile devices
- Ability to turn high fidelity designs into functional prototypes using HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, Javascript
- Experience developing on the Salesforce platform (Aura, Apex, Lightning Web Components, Salesforce Administration etc.)
- Experience developing user interfaces in non-traditional formats such large format screens, car dashboards, AR/VR etc.
- Strong object orient programming background
- Familiarity with backend development concepts such as creating servers, REST APIs, and microservices
- Experience designing, specifying, integrating, and testing cutting edge hardware with software APIs
- Collaborate and communicate on multiple, complex projects concurrently, with a team of designers, developers and marketers from concept to completion
