Senior Salesforce Developer

Boss Professional Services • Full-time • Remote (Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom) • 12h ago

Senior Salesforce Developer

Location: Remote - Travel to Manchester office once per month.

Outside IR35

Overview

The Senior Salesforce Developer will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and optimising Salesforce solutions that support business transformation across the organisation. This position suits someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong communication skills and a proactive, solution-driven mindset.

You will work closely with architects, product owners, business analysts, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-quality Salesforce capabilities across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Field Service, Experience Cloud, and custom applications.

Key Responsibilities

Development of complex Salesforce solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Visualforce, and integration technologies.
Translate business requirements into robust technical designs aligned with Salesforce best practices.
Own end-to-end development life cycle activities including build, unit testing, deployment, and documentation.
Support Development and maintenance of integrations using REST/SOAP APIs, Middleware, and external systems.
Collaborate with Salesforce Administrators to ensure configuration and customisation work seamlessly together.
Support release management, CI/CD pipelines, and environment strategy.
Troubleshoot complex issues and provide expert-level support during incidents or enhancements

Essential Skills & Experience

Extensive hands-on experience as a Salesforce Developer in enterprise-scale environments.
- Strong proficiency in:
  - Apex (classes, triggers, asynchronous processing)
  - Lightning Web Components (LWC)
  - SOQL/SOSL
  - Salesforce APIs and integration patterns
- Solid understanding of Salesforce data modelling, security model, and governor limits.
- Experience with version control (eg, Git) and CI/CD tools (eg, Copado, Gearset, Azure DevOps).
- Proven track record delivering complex Salesforce projects in Agile environments.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications Required and Desired.

- Salesforce Platform Developer I (required)
- Salesforce Platform Developer II (highly desirable)
- Additional certifications such as:
  - Data Cloud, Field Service Consultant
  - Sales, Service, Experience Cloud Consultant
  - Integration Architect or Application Architect (advantageous)

Personal Attributes

- Analytical, structured, and detail-oriented.
- Comfortable leading technical discussions and influencing architectural decisions.
- Strong problem-solver with a collaborative mindset.