Senior Salesforce Front-End Developer

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Job description

Role Summary

The Senior Salesforce Front-End Developer role combines User Experience (UX) design with hands-on Lightning Web Component and Aura Component development in a fast-paced and highly rewarding environment.

The role will focus on developing new features and functionality that drive business value, continuously improving the quality of front-end code through refactoring, and providing support for solutions delivered to the business.

The Salesforce Core Team supports multiple lines of business across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. The role will report to and work in close collaboration with the Chief Salesforce Architect, with working hours aligned to market hours.

Locations: Chicago (preferred), New York, Austin, or London.

Objectives



• Design, develop and maintain world class enterprise Salesforce applications with Lightning Web Components, Aura Components, and declarative UI configuration
• Create a uniform experience across custom and standard Salesforce user interfaces
• Enable new ways of visualizing complex and loosely coupled data structures in a way that fits the mental models of business users across the enterprise
• Maintain a growing library of custom reusable LWC and Aura components
• Streamline business processes and abstract underlying business complexity through custom UI design
• Focus relentlessly on making user interfaces obvious, intuitive, and highly functional
• Reduce clicks, consolidate contexts, and simplify the capturing of client engagement

Skills and Preferred Qualifications

• Expert JavaScript (ECMAScript 6 and later), HTML5 and CSS3 development skills
• Extensive experience developing with Lightning Web Components and the Aura Component Framework in an enterprise, consulting, or ISV developer or architect role
• Thorough understanding of Lightning Experience, including strategies for implementing custom components and applications in Flexipages, Global Actions, Quick Actions, and Utility Bar Actions
• Strong command of UI/UX principles
• Deep familiarity and experience with the Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS)
• Understanding of Apex for developing component controllers, business logic and validations, as well as maximizing code coverage with unit tests
• Expert knowledge of the Salesforce schema, including how and when to use Custom Objects, Custom Metadata, or Custom Settings
• Understanding of the Salesforce platform security model and how it applies to custom LWC and Aura components
• Experience integrating Lightning Components with the Lightning Messaging Service (LMS), Lightning Console API, User Interface API, and Quick Action API
• Understanding of the Salesforce platform architecture, including governor limits and how to code defensively to avoid exceptions
• Knowledge of JavaScript unit testing with Jest
• Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I, Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II, and Salesforce Platform App Builder certifications required
• Salesforce Certified JavaScript Developer I and Salesforce Certified User Experience (UX) Designer a plus

About Citadel Securities

Citadel Securities is a leading global market maker across a broad array of fixed income and equity securities. Our world-class capabilities position us to meet the liquidity demands of our diverse group of institutional clients in all market conditions. In partnering with us, our clients, including asset managers, banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, government agencies and public pension programs are able to gain a powerful trading advantage and are better positioned to meet their investment goals.

The team makes its mark every day from our offices around the world: Chicago, New York, London, Hong Kong, Toronto, Shanghai, Sydney, Dublin.