The Senior Salesforce Developer will play a critical dual role—serving as a hands-on technical leader for both internal Salesforce org initiatives and client-facing projects as needed. This role is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing scalable Salesforce solutions while ensuring the health, performance, and evolution of the internal Salesforce platform.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a primary technical owner of the internal Salesforce org, driving its architecture, scalability, and ongoing optimization
- Design, develop, and deploy custom Salesforce solutions using Apex, LWC, and platform capabilities
- Lead and contribute as a hands-on senior developer across internal and client projects
- Partner with internal stakeholders to analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve internal processes, automation, and system performance
- Manage and prioritize multiple concurrent initiatives, balancing internal needs and client deliverables
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement Agile development practices
- Provide deep technical guidance to developers, QA, and business teams
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex system and integration issues across environments
- Conduct code reviews and org health assessments, ensuring adherence to best practices and governance standards
- Define and enforce development standards, DevOps processes, and release management practices
- Lead integration design and implementation with external systems (e.g., Workato, APIs, middleware tools)
- Support pre-sales and solutioning efforts when needed for client engagements
- Mentor and coach junior developers, fostering technical growth and best practices adoption
- Drive the creation of reusable assets, frameworks, and internal accelerators
- Leverage agentic AI development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) and command-line automation (e.g., Salesforce CLI/SFDX) to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and build internal productivity accelerators
- Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development workflows across the team, defining best practices for prompt engineering, agent configuration, and human-in-the-loop review
- Collaborate with leadership on roadmapping, prioritization, and platform strategy
Basic Qualifications:
- 8+ years of hands-on Salesforce development experience
- Strong expertise in Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Visualforce, and JavaScript
- Deep experience with Salesforce configuration, including flows, validation rules, and security model
- Proven experience managing or contributing to internal Salesforce org strategy and enhancements
- Strong understanding of Salesforce integration patterns (REST/SOAP APIs, middleware tools, event-driven architecture)
- Experience with DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Git, Copado, Gearset, etc.)
- Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, coding, and configuring solutions using agentic AI development platforms such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or comparable tools—including writing effective prompts, structuring agent workflows, and integrating AI agents into the software development lifecycle
- Proficiency with Salesforce CLI (SFDX) for scripting, automation, metadata management, and orchestrating agentic workflows against Salesforce orgs
- Proven ability to combine agentic tooling with Salesforce CLI to automate repetitive development, deployment, and org management tasks
- Solid understanding of data modeling, governance, and platform best practices
- Experience refactoring and modernizing legacy Salesforce implementations
- Familiarity with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks)
- Strong grasp of object-oriented design and architecture principles
- Ability to work independently and own end-to-end technical solutions
- Minimum of 2 Salesforce developer-focused certifications
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Plative Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Plative is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
How You'll Embody Our Core Values
At Plative, our core values shape how we work, collaborate, and grow. As part of the team, you will:
- Put People First by building trusted relationships with clients and mentoring teammates.
- Grow Together, Win Together by sharing knowledge, celebrating wins, and elevating others.
- Bring Your Authentic Self to Work by fostering openness, empathy, and integrity in every interaction.
- Take the Path You'll Be Proud Of by delivering excellence, owning outcomes, and learning from challenges.
- Push Boundaries, Blow Minds by designing creative, scalable solutions that drive real impact.
Plative Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Plative is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
