Salesforce Architect

Job Description

Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.

Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 275,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.

As a Salesforce Architect with Nextdoor, Inc. (San Francisco, CA) you’ll provide scalable architecture solutions, partnering with business stakeholders to understand requirements and develop strategies to meet architecture/technology needs and provide technical design documents for implementation. Provide subject matter expertise (SME) in Salesforce.com platform, integrations, extensions, APEX, Salesforce Community, Visualforce, and maintain responsibility to support CRM system architecture. Collaborate to design and develop holistic and lean enterprise architecture to support business needs. Maintain and develop new and existing integrations within platform. Develop system configurations, workflows, triggers, apex coding, Visual Force pages, lightening migration on Salesforce platform. Document technical architecture design and analysis work. Track initiatives from initiation through post-launch, communicating regularly on program/project plans, progress, blockers, and risks to cross-functional stakeholders, sponsors, and Vendors. Perform code reviews and deployments to production and closely monitor proper testing, performance, system updates, releases and security requirements.

• Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Technology Management, or a related field.
• Three (3) years of experience as a Technical Manager, Applications Architect, Platform Architect, or closely related role.
• In the alternative, will accept a Bachelor’s degree in fields above followed by five (5) years of progressive post-bachelor’s experience in positions specified above.
• Must have demonstrated experience in project management and the following: Utilizing SFDC (Sales Force Dot Com) Enterprise Architecture; Writing SOQL/SOSL queries; Utilizing AppExchange to deploy/customize 3rd party add-ons and managed packages; Utilizing CRM, APEX language trigger codes, Visual Force, SOQL, and SOSL to design software application; Utilizing Oracle database to create store and retrieve procedures and perform data; migration tasks, including data extraction, data integrity, data quality, and data maintenance; Migrating Salesforce from Classic to Lightning interface and working in a mixed environment; Developing applications using front-end technologies, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, to implement new features and enhancements for acquisition and servicing web and mobile application; Utilizing Einstein, Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, and Community Cloud to transform data into actionable insights; and Utilizing Enterprise integration architecture design and patterns, including MicroServices and Orchestration.

At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the customers we seek to serve. We encourage everyone interested in our purpose to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.