Senior Salesforce Developer

Esimplicity - Silver Spring, MD

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Silver Spring, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Salesforce Developer at eSimplicity is responsible for participating in the full application life cycle, including architecture, design, development, testing, and deployment of Salesforce applications. This role involves writing high-performance Apex code, customizing Lightning Components, and designing data models. The developer will also engage in performance engineering, risk management, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver efficient and scalable cloud solutions. Additionally, the position includes mentoring junior developers and supporting hiring efforts within the team.

Responsibilities

• Participating in the full application life cycle: architecture, design, development, testing and deployment
• Writing, testing, and deploying high-performance, reusable, and reliable Apex code
• Creating and customizing Lightning Components to enhance the user interface
• Designing data models and implementing Salesforce objects, including custom objects, fields, and relationships
• Performance engineering Salesforce applications using code optimization techniques, modular development practices, lazy loading, query analysis and optimization, caching solutions, and asynchronous workflows
• Contributing to options analyses, proof-of-concept implementations, and validations for proposed solutions
• Identifying risks, managing change, and designing cloud solutions that are efficient and scalable
• Gathering technical requirements and understanding user stories to translate dependencies to the technical delivery team
• Working closely with designers and engineers to gather and implement product, front-end, and back-end requirements
• Assisting users with troubleshooting and resolving problems of the platform
• Participating in Agile processes including daily standups, demos, retrospectives, and sprint planning
• Documenting development processes, technical designs, and other relevant information to ensure team coverage and code maintainability
• Staying up-to-date on Salesforce trends, releases, new features, and product roadmaps, including reviewing and signing off on product compatibility with upcoming releases
• Setting and enforcing Salesforce best practices and coding standards that promote code reusability, maintainability, and performance
• Implementing mature unit and integration testing to ensure systems work as intended
• Leading cross-team collaborations and disseminating information through knowledge sharing sessions, communities of practice, etc.
• Leading and enforcing an automation-first approach to reduce manual configurations within the Salesforce platform using custom Apex scripts, Robotic Process Automation, etc.
• Supporting hiring efforts for the program, including conducting resume screens, technical interviews, and culture-and-values assessments
• Coaching, mentoring, and managing a team of Salesforce Developers as direct reports

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering or related field
• 7+ years of relative experience in Salesforce Development & Engineering
• Experience with web programming including HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Experience of custom solutions on Salesforce platform working with Lightning Web Components, Apex Triggers, Apex Classes, Visualforce, SOQL
• Experience working with Copado CI/CD pipelines and knowledgeable on Copado best practices
• Experience building REST APIs for external systems integrations
• Experience with object-oriented programming design patterns and Salesforce data modeling best practices
• Experience working on/with an Agile and SAFe team
• Awareness of critical concepts in Security, DevSecOps and Agile principles
• Experience developing reporting and dashboards in Salesforce
• Experience on a call center setup within Salesforce
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to collaborate with team members and business stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working in multi-team development environments
• Experience in multi-cloud architectures and AWS cloud development is a plus
• Experience in civic technology and with government contracting is a plus
• Personnel management experience required
• Active Trailhead account required

Nice-to-haves

• One or more Salesforce developer certifications: Developer I, Developer II, Platform App builder
• Copado Fundamentals I
• Copado Fundamentals II is a plus
• Experience in health cloud implementation and development is a plus

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Full healthcare benefits
• Performance bonus
• Flexible leave policy