Salesforce Developer - Engineering - Bangalore, India

THE COMPANY

MPOWER’s borderless loans enable students from around the world to realize their full academic & career potential by attending top universities in the U.S and Canada.

As a mission-oriented FinTech / EdTech company, we move extremely fast and leverage the latest technologies, global best practices, and heavy analytics to tackle one of the biggest challenges in financial inclusion. We’re backed by over $150 million in equity capital from top global investors, which enables our fast-growth and provides our company with financial stability and a clear path to an IPO over the coming years.

Our global team is composed of ex-management consultants, financial services and technology professionals, and other experts in their respective fields. We work hard, have fun, and believe greatly in our cause. For us, MPOWER’s mission of making this mission is personal.

As a member of our team, you’ll be challenged to think quickly, act autonomously, and constantly grow, creatively in an environment where fast change and exponential growth is the norm. ideation and implementation happens very quickly. We value feedback and emphasize personal and professional development by providing the resources you need to further your skills and grow with the company. MPOWER is committed to cultivating your strengths and curiosity and helping you make an immediate impact.

MPOWER has been named one of the best fintechs to work for by American Banker for the past 6 years in a row. We are honored to be nominated by multiple agencies and publications for our leadership in Tech, diversity and social impact. We pride ourselves on being a “growth company for grown-ups,” where there are no pool tables but rather great health, education, and maternity/paternity benefits instead. Our team diversity has been recognized as well; we’re one of the most diverse workforces in the world in terms of nationality, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, and educational background.

THIS IS A FULL-TIME POSITION BASED IN BANGALORE, INDIA. THE ROLE

You will be directly responsible for ensuring that we fully capitalize on the features and benefits of the Salesforce platform and ecosystem including effective configuration to minimize customization and drive a more efficient, friendly experience for all internal and 3rd party users. You should have superior technical knowledge of Salesforce, as well as excellent communication skills to understand business needs, influence solutions, and administer the system accordingly. You will also focus on security, compliance, and data integrity through effective training, release management, and other best practices. The responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Ensuring both the integrity and efficiency of internal salesforce based workflows across all key functions & understanding business requirements and recommending system changes that better meet both current and future needs
• Working with data analytics and others to design processes to improve data accuracy and deliver more insightful and actionable reporting
• Partnering with third parties to improve reliability of data interfaces and better control of changes made that may impact data accuracy
• Modifying system configuration and settings to improve usability and flexibility to enable MPOWER’s ability to dramatically scale & suggest ways that the salesforce ecosystem can better meet end-customer and stakeholder needs
• Optimizing long running processes and reducing tech debts in the system, along with training end-users and engineering to better use salesforce configuration and capabilities while maintaining process documentation

THE QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other related field
• 3+ years of relevant work experience as a salesforce developer including relevant certification like SFDC Platform Developer I and II, and App Builder certifications.
• Hands-on experience in Apex, LWC, Lightning, and integration (REST/SOAP) along with SFDC modules in Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and optionally Experience Cloud.
• Good to have experience with Version Control or CI/CD along with code deployment.
• Experience using modern cloud services (e.g. AWS) and leading legacy infrastructure management tools with an in-depth knowledge of standard salesforce capabilities, customization or integration of external systems.
• Experience in consumer lending or similar field, and a strong grasp of business usage of salesforce
• Superior communication, presentation and facilitation skills with the ability to express complex concepts in plain language to reach broader audiences

A passion for financial inclusion and access to higher education is a must, as well as comfort working with a global team across multiple time zones and locations!

In addition, you should be comfortable working in a fast growth environment, meaning a small agile team, fast-evolving roles and responsibilities, variable workload, tight deadlines, a high degree of autonomy, and 80-20 everything.