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Salesforce Engineer (Hybrid)

Yesterday Boston, MA

As a Salesforce Engineer at American Family Insurance, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and optimizing Salesforce solutions that align with our goals and standards. We will require a technical background in application architecture, integration strategies, and software development life cycle (SDLC) principles, with a focus on delivering customer-driven solutions. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, the Salesforce Developer ensures seamless data flows, robust integrations, and high-quality customizations, while maintaining comprehensive documentation and adhering to best practices in programming, performance, and security.

In this hybrid role, you will be expected to work a minimum of 10 days per month out of the Madison, WI or Boston, MA offices.

Internals are encouraged to apply regardless of location.

You will report to the Senior Manager, Engineering - Customer Digital Technology.

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Position Compensation Range:
$78,000.00 - $128,000.00

Pay Rate Type:
Salary

Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location. Relocation support is offered for eligible candidates.

Primary Accountabilities

  • Design and develop Salesforce solutions aligned with business requirement, organizational standard, and best practice
  • Analyze and identify dependency within Salesforce and integrated system; evaluate impact of proposed change on related application and recommend solution
  • Document design decision, technical specification, code module, and performance metric per team and organizational standard
  • Define, conduct, and participate in testing activity, including unit, integration, and user acceptance testing for Salesforce component
  • Collaborate with teams to increase data flow, integration, and business process within Salesforce and connected platform
  • Ensure Salesforce development meets standard for programming, design, performance, quality, and security
  • Actively participate in team meeting, sprint planning, and help achieve team goal
  • Create, maintain, and enhance technical documentation for Salesforce customization, integration, and configuration

Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements
  • Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service
  • Basic knowledge and understanding of integration and migration strategies and technologies.
  • Basic knowledge and understanding of application architecture, design alternatives, and development standards.
  • Demonstrated experience developing complex software/systems using one or more programming language.
  • Demonstrated experience interpreting, modifying and writing application system design and program specifications.
  • Demonstrated experience using and supporting integration and communications technologies between applications, databases and technology platforms.
  • Demonstrated experience using relational databases and standard query language (SQL).
  • Solid knowledge and understanding of systems development life cycle (SDLC).
  • Solid knowledge and understanding of activities, tasks, tools and techniques for testing applications to ensure adherence to functional and quality requirements.

Preferred Skills:
  • Demonstrated experience supporting the Salesforce ecosystem
  • Working knowledge of Salesforce integration and migration strategy, including REST/SOAP API, middleware, and data migration tool
  • Understanding of Salesforce application architecture, design pattern, and development standard (Apex, Lightning Component, Visualforce)
  • 3+ years of experience developing and customizing Salesforce application using Apex, Lightning Web Component, and declarative tool
  • Ability to interpret, modify, and write technical specification and design document for Salesforce solution
  • Experience with integration technology connecting Salesforce to external application, database, and platform
  • Proficiency in using Salesforce data management tool and writing SOQL/SOSL query.

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Licenses:
  • Not Applicable.
Travel Requirements:
  • Up to 5%.
Physical Requirements:
  • Work primarily involves sitting/standing.
Working Conditions:
  • Not Applicable.

Additional Information
  • Offer to selected candidate will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks
  • Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions
  • Sponsorship will not be considered for this position unless specified in the posting

We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non-harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

American Family Insurance is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please email AskHR@AmFam.com to request a reasonable accommodation.

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Client-provided location(s): Boston, MA, Madison, WI
Job ID: American_Family_Insurance-R37798
Employment Type: FULL_TIME
Posted: 2025-12-01T23:34:38

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Parental Benefits

      • Work Flexibility

        • Office Life and Perks

          • Vacation and Time Off

            • Financial and Retirement

              • Professional Development

                • Diversity and Inclusion