Senior Salesforce Developer

CompanyMethods

LocationEngland, United Kingdom

Posted At1/20/2026

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Sales accounts and business development managers

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£55,200 (£28.31 per hour)

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Description

Role specification

The Senior Salesforce Developer holds end-to-end responsibility for designing, developing, and enhancing Salesforce solutions that underpin the delivery of high-quality services aligned to business requirements.

The role provides technical leadership and direction, ensuring that development resources are effectively deployed to maintain business-as-usual capability while delivering agreed enhancements and transformation activity that support system stability, scalability, and long-term sustainability.

Acting as the senior technical point of contact for Salesforce delivery, the Senior Salesforce Developer ensures best-practice governance, coding standards, and development methodologies are consistently applied. The role works closely with business analysts, product owners, architects, and third-party suppliers to ensure solution continuity and alignment across the Salesforce ecosystem.

The Senior Salesforce Developer contributes to the continuous improvement of development practices, supports capability uplift across the team, and ensures that Salesforce solutions continue to evolve in line with platform innovations and organisational needs.

This role will be mainly remote with the usual travel as and when required

Key Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, and customisation of Salesforce applications using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Visualforce, and related technologies.

Own the technical design process, ensuring solutions meet architectural standards, security requirements, and business needs.
Integrate Salesforce with external systems using REST/SOAP APIs, middleware, and third-party applications.
Conduct code reviews, enforce development best practices, and ensure high-quality, reusable, and scalable code.
Maintain data integrity, system performance, and platform scalability through proactive monitoring and technical optimisation.
Ensure adoption of Salesforce DevOps practices, including Salesforce DX, version control (e.g., Git), and CI/CD pipelines.
Remain up to date with Salesforce releases, evaluate new features, and recommend adoption within the organisation.
Work closely with business analysts, solution architects, and stakeholders to gather, refine, and translate technical requirements into deliverable solutions.

Act as the technical escalation point for complex issues across the Salesforce platform.

Communicate technical decisions, platform considerations, and delivery status to senior stakeholders.

Represent Salesforce technical delivery in governance forums and project meetings.

Ensure alignment between Salesforce development activity and wider digital strategy, delivery priorities, and operational requirements.

Provide mentorship, technical guidance, and support to junior developers and cross-functional colleagues.

Support knowledge-management activities, ensuring documentation, patterns, and reusable components are maintained.

Contribute to the uplift of internal Salesforce capability by enabling skills development and sharing best practice across teams.

Support the creation of delivery collateral and technical input for bids or new project opportunities where Salesforce expertise is required.

Required Skills & Qualifications

SC Eligible / NPPV3 Eligible
5+ years’ experience in Salesforce development (Apex, Lightning, Visualforce).
Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture, security model, data model, and governance.

Proven experience integrating Salesforce with enterprise systems and APIs.

Experience with DevOps practices including Salesforce DX and version control tools (e.g., Git).

Demonstrable track record of delivering successful Salesforce implementations.

Salesforce Platform Developer I & II certifications (preferred).

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline (preferred).

Additional Desired Skills

SC Cleared / NPPV3 Cleared
Experience across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud.
Advanced knowledge of SOQL, SOSL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS.
Strong problem-solving abilities, communication skills, and leadership capability.