Salesforce Backend Engineer

at  Athena Mortgage Pty Ltd

Salesforce Backend Engineer
Meet Athena, the Home Loan Wrecker
Athena Home Loans burst into the industry in 2019 to shake things up and change home loans for good.
We’re reimagining home loans and showing Australia there’s a lender on their side. Home loans are all we do. We continue to rewrite the rules of home lending, creating tools, products and policy that put the power back in our customers’ hands. Athena has been recognised amongst multiple consumer lending and industry awards including Canstar Outstanding Value and Innovation Excellence awards, RateCity and Mozo awards, and Fintech Lender of the year and made AFR Boss best places to work list.
We place the power of independence in our customers’ hands and in yours. At Athena, you shape the pace and the place shapes you. Can-do and will-do, every person makes a big difference. Released from traditional hierarchy and norms, you’re free to be the person you know you are and want to be. Athena adds layers to your learning, not layers of bureaucracy, so you can do what you do best.
If you’re looking to shake things up and make a difference in a diverse, unified team with no elbows, we’d love to hear from you.
The Role
The Salesforce Engineer at Athena is part of a squad with a well-defined mission and ships high quality code and solutions to the challenges of helping customers reach their financial independence more quickly.
While this role is a Salesforce Engineer role, a candidate with additional secondary experience building backend services using Node.js and typescript in AWS is desired.

Key responsibilities

• Designing and implementing software solutions.
• Testing the stability and functionality of the application.
• Reviewing and collaborating with others on internal and cross-team technical proposals.
• Performing configuration and customization of the Salesforce platform.
• Collaborating to out our API layer using a micro-services architecture and components on public cloud infrastructure.
• Continuously increasing efficiency and quality of the team through tooling and experimentation.
• Collaborating with everyone in an open and constructive way.
• Operating the platform products offered by the team.
• Production support the Salesforce platform as well as across AWS services with support from other team members

About You

• You are a skilful engineer with high standards, passion for quality and a handful of years of experience under your belt.
• You are adaptable and keen to learn new languages when necessary but already competent and comfortable developing with APEX and Lightning Components.
• You have experience with web service technology (REST / SOAP / GQL, JSON / XML, etc).
• You either have experience building services using Node.js with Typescript and AWS or really keen to upskill and learn.
• You have great interpersonal and communication skills.
• You can troubleshoot issues in production, help determine root causes and propose the most appropriate solution for the situation.
• You can collaborate with software engineers, product owners and other IT staff members in order to understand the goals, derive/adapt requirements and implement solutions.
• You are comfortable working in an Agile, fast-paced DevOps environment.
• You are a problem-solver and embrace the can-do.
• You are a team player.
• You are keen to learn and get comfortable with new technologies.
• You proactively engage on continuous improvement efforts for application design, support and development efforts.
• You preferably have BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field.

What a successful candidate looks like

• Strong design and analytical skills.
• Capacity to think holistically and see the bigger picture.
• Solid writing and communication skills.
• Experience with public cloud providers is a plus. AWS is a plus-plus and highly desired.
• Experience with writing backend code using Typescript and Node.js highly desired.
• Be great, be you, play nice!

Additional Benefits & Perks

• Inclusive, Flexible and casual working environment
• Hybrid working with HQ Anchor Days in award winning office space
• Wellbeing program to support your physical, mental, social and financial health
• Perks program with access to discounts to every day expenses
• Fantastic team culture with monthly events

At Athena we are committed to a workplace that embraces diversity, equality, and inclusion. Athenians are free to let their own brand of freak fly.
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• Designing and implementing software solutions.
• Testing the stability and functionality of the application.
• Reviewing and collaborating with others on internal and cross-team technical proposals.
• Performing configuration and customization of the Salesforce platform.
• Collaborating to out our API layer using a micro-services architecture and components on public cloud infrastructure.
• Continuously increasing efficiency and quality of the team through tooling and experimentation.
• Collaborating with everyone in an open and constructive way.
• Operating the platform products offered by the team.
• Production support the Salesforce platform as well as across AWS services with support from other team member