Celebrating 40 years in business this year, Rewards Network has helped restaurants increase their revenue, traffic, and customer engagement through our innovative financial, marketing services, and premier dining rewards programs. We connect diners to fantastic restaurant experiences by offering unique card-linked offers. Our offers leverage advanced technology and powerful data analytics, providing value to our restaurants, diners, and strategic partners' loyalty programs.
Our Culture
At Rewards Network, you will find a passionate and diverse group of professionals that enjoy working collaboratively, solving problems, and taking ownership of not only their own careers and success, but the success and continued growth of the organization. We take pride in partnering with the world's most powerful loyalty programs to bring full-price paying customers and better ways to access working capital options to local restaurants. We offer a challenging and rewarding environment where you can maximize your potential.
Job Overview
The Salesforce Developer plays a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing the Rewards Network Salesforce platform to support Sales, Service, Revenue Operations, and overall business growth. This role exists to ensure scalable, high-quality solutions that enhance user experience, streamline people-driven processes, and enable data-driven decision-making. The developer will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, business leaders, and other software engineering teams, to deliver both low-code and pro-code solutions following current Salesforce best practices.
This is a hybrid position and requires in office presence 2-3 days a week in Chicago.
What you’ll bring to the table: (Responsibilities)
• Develop and maintain user-centric custom solutions in Salesforce, using Apex, Lightning Web Components, declarative tools, and integrations with external systems.• Follow Salesforce and internal best practices for security, scalability, and maintainability while adhering to governance limits.• Collaborate with Product and Business Stakeholders to understand requirements, translate business needs into technical solutions, and participate in Agile development cycles.• Integrate Salesforce with external platforms via REST/SOAP APIs, middleware, and ETL tools as required. • Optimize and troubleshoot performance issues and security vulnerabilities in Salesforce applications.• Participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment processes to ensure quality and adherence to internal policies.• Maintain data integrity and security leveraging role hierarchies, profiles, sharing rules, and field-level security.• Provide clear technical documentation for users, administrators, and other developers as needed.• Stay updated on Salesforce releases, features, and industry best practices to continuously enhance the platform and drive innovation.
Do you have the right mix of ingredients: (Requirements)
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)• 5 - 7 years of Salesforce development and administration experience• Salesforce Platform Developer I, JavaScript Developer I, and Salesforce Administrator certifications• Proficiency in Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOQL, SOSL, and JavaScript.• Strong understanding of Salesforce declarative features (flows, validation rules, security, etc.).• Experience with low-code and pro-code development approaches.• Strong knowledge of the Salesforce security model, sharing rules, roles, permission sets, and profiles.• Hands-on experience integrating Salesforce with external systems using REST/SOAP APIs and middleware.• Familiarity with CI/CD processes, version control (Git), and DevOps tools for Salesforce.• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and performance optimization skills.• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.• Experience working in Agile development environments (Scrum, Kanban).
Education, Certifications and Experience: Preferred
• Salesforce Platform Developer II certification• Salesforce Platform App Builder certification• Experience with Salesforce Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, or other Salesforce products• Experience in Agile environments and working closely with Product and Business teams
What you’ll love about us:
Comprehensive benefits package, which includes:• This is a full-time, exempt position and the base compensation for this opening in Chicago is expected to be $110,000-$120,000 annualized, depending on level, candidate experience, skills, and other factors; this position will be eligible for an annual bonus program with a projected target of 10% base annualized salary.
- Competitive Paid Time Off and company holidays
- Generous dining reimbursement when you dine with our restaurant clients
- 401(k) plan with a company match
- Two medical plan options- Standard PPO or High Deductible Health Plan (HSA with company match for HDHP participants)
- Partnership with Rx n Go, offering certain prescriptions for free
- Two dental plan options and a vision plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts and a pre-tax commuter benefit program
- Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Plans
- Short Term and Long Term disability
- Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance, supplemental employee, spouse, and child life insurance
- Employee Life Assistance Program
- Hybrid working space in our state of the art office downtown located by the Metra and Ogilvie train stations
- Catered lunches provided on Tuesday's in our Chicago office
Rewards Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We encourage and strongly support workplace diversity.Expected Pay Range $110,000—$120,000 USD
