Salesforce Developer - Salesforce Platform Developer
Salary: £70,000 - £90,000
Location: Fully Remote
Package: Full corporate benefits package
Overview
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Salesforce Platform Developer to join an exciting SaaS organisation. The role will be approximately 80% focused on hands-on Salesforce development, with the remaining 20% providing additional capability across automation testing. You will develop, test and maintain a Salesforce-based platform, delivering reliable platform changes and supporting integrations, deployments and releases within an Agile environment.
This would suit a hands-on Salesforce Developer with strong Apex, Lightning Web Components and OmniStudio experience who also has experience supporting automated testing.
Role and Responsibilities
Spend approximately 80% of your time developing, configuring and maintaining Salesforce functionality across a business-critical platform
Build solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, SOQL, JavaScript and OmniStudio
Translate business and platform requirements into practical technical solutions, user stories and acceptance criteria
Support integrations between Salesforce and wider enterprise applications and services
Contribute to technical design, release readiness and deployment activities
Spend approximately 20% of your time supporting automation testing, helping to improve test coverage and reduce manual testing
Develop and maintain automated tests alongside functional and regression testing
Investigate defects and technical issues across Salesforce development, integrations and environments
Support Salesforce environments, deployments and CI/CD processes
Work collaboratively within an Agile team, contributing to sprint planning, reviews and continuous improvement
Skills and Experience
Strong commercial Salesforce development experience
Hands-on experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows and SOQL
Experience with Salesforce OmniStudio, including OmniScripts
Good knowledge of Salesforce data, security, automation and integration principles
Experience developing and supporting Salesforce solutions across multiple environments
Experience with automation testing and automated test frameworks within a software development environment
Strong functional and regression testing experience
Experience with Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Salesforce CLI, Metadata API and CI/CD pipelines
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Experience working within Agile development teams
Experience within a regulated, healthcare, life sciences or clinical trials environment would be advantageous
Desirable
Experience with Salesforce Agentforce or other Salesforce AI capabilities
Familiarity with Heroku-hosted applications and Salesforce integration services
Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code
Relevant Salesforce certifications including Platform Developer, OmniStudio Developer, Administrator or Platform App Builder
