Sr Salesforce Engineer

The Sr. Salesforce Engineer brings passion, enthusiasm, and a growth mind-set to Thrivent’s Engineering Culture. They are a trusted expert, who applies business, industry, and technical knowledge of assigned assets, domains, platforms, technologies, and vendors. Collaborates with team members to ensure quality solution delivery. Responsible for implementation, execution, and maintenance of technology solutions to mitigate risk and drive business results. Provides development expertise on mid-large sized projects to solve complex problems.

The Sr. Salesforce Engineer will have exposure to both the Sales and Service Cloud functionality within the Salesforce Platform. This person is responsible for designing, documenting, building (configuration and customization), unit testing, implementation, and maintenance of functionality that meets the needs identified by business partners. Successful candidates will have experience with large implementations along with a broad knowledge of the Salesforce and associated capabilities. The ideal candidate will also have strong skills in integration patterns and development in technologies off the Salesforce platform.

Position Roles / Responsibilities / Accountabilities

Solution Architecture / Systems Design

• Review and understand documented user stories.

• Partner with Lead Salesforce Engineer to define and develop solutions that ensure alignment with industry best practices, technical strategies, and priorities.

• Consistent and dependable in delivering core technology solutions that deliver outcomes and meets/exceeds the teams expectations for stability, scalability, resilience, etc.

Application Implementation & Maintenance

• Implement new features and enhancements using established development standards and approved change‑management processes.

• Conduct unit testing and collaborate closely with Quality Assurance Engineers to support functional and performance testing across Salesforce and integrated applications.

• Provide ongoing support for service requests, routine maintenance tasks, and general application operations.

• Continuously evaluate and improve technology solutions to ensure software stability, scalability, and resilience.

• Leverage automation tools to streamline testing, optimize workflows, and drive process improvements.

• Support observability and monitoring tools to ensure system health and deliver proactive issue detection and notifications.

Leadership

• Provide guidance to junior engineers helping them learn foundational engineering skills.

• Provide domain expertise on software products in their area to junior engineers to help them learn/grow their skills and contribute as part of the team.

• Provide technical expertise and help the team problem solve technical/software issues.

• Actively participate in the technology community through forums, events, and/or open-source or personal project contributions.

Position Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working in a Salesforce engineering environment.

• Deep expertise in Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud; experience with Marketing Cloud or Financial Services Cloud is a strong plus.

• Proficiency in Apex (Classes, Triggers, Batch Apex), JavaScript, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Visualforce, and integration technologies including REST, SOAP, Change Data Capture, Platform Events, SOQL, and SOSL.

• Hands‑on experience with Salesforce configuration and automation tools, such as custom objects, workflow approvals, Flow, Process Builder, and Data Loader.

• 3+ years of recent experience with several integration or platform technologies, such as Java, REST/SOAP APIs, Spring Boot, Confluent Kafka, Change Data Capture, Platform Events, OpenShift, Docker, TC Server, and messaging queues (RabbitMQ, IBM MQ).

• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices, including tools like Visual Studio Code or IntelliJ, Salesforce CLI, Git, GitHub/GitHub Actions, and Jira.

• Strong ability to troubleshoot issues across Salesforce and connected systems, including sharing/visibility challenges, bulk DML operations, Apex errors, and external callouts.

• Experience working in an Agile environment, collaborating directly with product owners and business stakeholders.

• Salesforce Administrator and Developer certifications preferred.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially in documenting technical solutions.

• Demonstrated ability and motivation to learn new technologies and development tools.

• A creative, solution‑oriented mindset with the ability to apply innovative approaches to software design.

Pay TransparencyThrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $120,467.00 - $162,984.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.The following benefits may be offered: various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.

Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status,genetic information, or any otherstatus protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.

Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by sending an email to human.resources@thrivent.com or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.

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