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Salesforce Developer
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What they do
A Salesforce or CRM Developer works technically Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, which refers to technologies that companies use to manage and analyze customer interactions and data throughout the customer lifecycle. Salesforce is the most commonly used CRM software.
$121,592 / year median in California
+0% projected growth
Job Description
# Salesforce Developer This role will be responsible for designing, developing, customizing, and maintaining Salesforce solutions while ensuring seamless integrations, scalable functionality, and high-quality releases. ## Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement Salesforce solutions based on business and technical requirements.
- Develop and customize Salesforce Lightning applications, components, workflows, Flows, Apex classes, triggers, and validation rules.
- Build and maintain integrations between Salesforce and enterprise applications using
REST/SOAP
APIs and other integration technologies.
- Develop and maintain Apex code, Lightning Web Components (LWC), and Salesforce automation.
- Support data migration activities, including data mapping, transformation, validation, and deployment.
- Analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable Salesforce technical solutions.
- Perform unit testing, debugging, troubleshooting, and code optimization.
- Collaborate with QA teams to resolve defects and ensure solution quality.
- Participate in Salesforce deployments, release management, and production support activities.
- Follow Salesforce development best practices, coding standards, security guidelines, and governor-limit considerations.
- Collaborate with business analysts, architects, QA, and support teams throughout the development lifecycle.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, and retrospectives. ## Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in Salesforce development.
- Strong hands-on experience with Salesforce Lightning, Apex, Triggers, Classes, Visualforce, and Lightning Web Components (LWC).
- Experience developing Salesforce Flows, workflows, validation rules, approval processes, and custom objects.
- Strong experience with Salesforce integrations and
REST/SOAP
APIs.
- Experience with Salesforce development and deployment tools such as Salesforce CLI, Git, Copado, or similar CI/CD tools.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle processes.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce security model, including profiles, permission sets, roles, sharing rules, and object/field-level security.
- Strong analytical, communication, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills. ## Preferred Qualifications
- Salesforce Platform Developer I and/or Platform Developer II certification.
- Salesforce Administrator certification.
- Experience with MuleSoft and enterprise integration solutions.
- Experience with data migration tools and technologies such as Data Loader.
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices for Salesforce.
- Experience developing solutions for Financial Services, Lending, Banking, or other Salesforce-based enterprise applications.
- Experience working with large-scale Salesforce implementations and complex integrations.