Salesforce Development Engineer

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Development Engineer to design, build, and launch scalable business systems that automate complex sales and contracting workflows. This engineer will develop solutions on the Salesforce platform supporting request intake, approvals, document generation, specialist review, and routing automation. The ideal candidate brings strong computer science fundamentals, distributed-system experience, and the ability to translate ambiguous product requirements into maintainable technical solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and launch scalable software solutions for complex business workflows on the Salesforce platform.
• Contribute to distributed-system architecture, design, and implementation.
• Build and maintain custom applications, data queries (SOQL), event-driven logic (Apex triggers), and workflow automation.
• Partner with Product Managers and stakeholders to clarify ambiguous requirements and define build-ready solutions.
• Evaluate technical tradeoffs related to scalability, reliability, maintainability, and performance.
• Participate throughout the full software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, and launch activities.
• Troubleshoot technical issues and improve existing systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong computer science and software engineering fundamentals, including system design, design patterns, reliability, and scalability.
• Hands-on development experience with an enterprise CRM or low-code application platform, specifically with production code experience in Apex, SOQL, and Salesforce triggers.
• Experience designing, implementing, or enhancing distributed software systems.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with Product Managers to clarify ambiguous requirements and move projects forward.
• Experience working across the full software development lifecycle.

Skills

• Programming experience with Java or another object-oriented language.
• Experience with cloud-based services.
• Experience developing in a Linux environment.
• Experience building scalable online services or front-end infrastructure.
• Experience serving as a technical lead or mentoring junior software engineers.
• Ability to use data and metrics to support technical decisions and business recommendations.

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Schedule

• This is an on-site position.
• The role follows standard core business hours, with flexibility based on project needs.
• Occasional additional hours may be required, but overtime, weekend, and holiday work are not typically expected.
• No regular travel is expected for this role.