We’d love you to join our thriving MediaNews Group product development team whose mission is to create people-centric, software experiences that empower our local news and digital partners. We help small teams play big!

Be part of a digital media landscape in the midst of rapid change; our team is at the center of a new content, marketing, and revenue-sustainable experience that puts content, people and performance first. You will be joining not only a team, but also a pragmatic way of working – we are agile, lean, and minimum viable process-oriented as we transform from a build-to-scale mindset through four core principles: be transparent; be disciplined; be bold; be together. Join us!

We are excited to be hiring a Data Engineer to join our high-performing team of experts as we continue to develop and enhance our Salesforce implementation for all parts of our business. Our Salesforce Lightning implementation includes Sales Cloud, CPQ, Tableau CRM, Partner Communities, and Pardot integration with plans to expand into other suite offerings. We are only a few years into our Salesforce journey, so you will have the opportunity to shape the course towards scale and meeting the needs for our customers. You will be part of the larger Product & Technology team which prioritizes learning, continuous improvement, and flexibility, allowing for many personal and professional growth opportunities.

Essential Functions 

• Collaborate with data warehouse team and salesforce administrators to develop and configure integrations with salesforce and a variety of external platforms

• Collaborate on relational and dimensional data modeling and database design.

• Implement systems that validate data, ensure quality and consistency as data moves from source systems to production.

• Troubleshoot data issues, validate result sets, recommend and implement process improvements, provide ad-hoc and scheduled reports and analysis.

• Salesforce Platform Development/Configuration

• Manage development-related Salesforce Release upgrades and documentation.

• Developing customized solutions within Salesforce

• Creating development goals and working within a product management timeline

Competencies & Skills

• 3+ years of relevant Software Engineer experience

• 2+ years of experience in the following:

  • ETL processes

  • Python 

  • SQL

  • Working with web service APIs

  • Version control system such as Git

  • Linux and/or OS X

  • PostgreSQL or other RDBMS data stores

• Knowledge of database design and architecture principles, including in the data warehousing space

• 1+ year of experience working with Salesforce

• Salesforce Developer Certification preferred

• Advanced knowledge of Salesforce Lightning

• Experience with complex Apex code