Platform Developer – Salesforce / DevOps
Salary: £70,000 - £90,000
Location: Fully Remote
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 DevOps, deployments and platform environments.
You will develop, test and maintain a Salesforce-based platform, delivering reliable platform changes while supporting CI/CD, environment management, 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 Salesforce DevOps and release processes.
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, testing, release readiness and deployment activities
Spend approximately 20% of your time supporting Salesforce DevOps, environment management and deployment processes
Support and improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation and deployment processes
Assist with Salesforce environment management, source control and configuration management
Investigate and resolve issues across development, integrations, environments and deployments
Support reliable and controlled releases across multiple Salesforce environments
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 supporting Salesforce DevOps, deployment and release processes
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, source control and automated deployments
Experience with Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Salesforce CLI and Metadata API
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across development and deployment environments
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
Experience with Salesforce DevOps tooling and deployment automation
Relevant Salesforce certifications including Platform Developer, OmniStudio Developer, Administrator or Platform App Builder
