Senior Salesforce Developer
Polar IT · Reston, VA · 6 mo ago
Information TechnologyFull-time
About the role
The client is seeking a Specialized Developer V to design, develop, and implement applications using Salesforce to support business requirements.
Responsibilities
- Perform high complexity (i.e. system level applications) analysis, design, development and unit testing of software applications from user requirements and design documents.
- Resolve defects encountered during various testing cycles.
- Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications.
- Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts.
- Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution.
- Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area.
- Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment.
- Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on Salesforce development experience.
- Proficiency in Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components (LWC), and SOQL/SOSL.
- Experience with Salesforce APIs (REST/SOAP), OAuth, and integration patterns.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture, including governor limits and security.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Git, Jenkins, Salesforce DX).
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Certifications (Highly Preferred)
- Salesforce Platform Developer I & II
- Salesforce Application Architect or System Architect
- Salesforce Certified Integration Architecture Designer
- Salesforce Certified JavaScript Developer I (for LWC-heavy roles)
Soft Skills
- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to lead projects and work independently.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required.
- 10+ years experience required.
- Development experience in needed language or technology (e.g. - WebSphere, Informatica etc.).
- Hands on experience in designing, developing and successful deployment of large scale projects from end-to-end.
- Hands on experience in following the iterative and agile SDLC.
- 2+ experience in the Salesforce platform (development experience must exceed 5 years).
- Knowledge in SOAP API, REST API, and Bulk API.
- Experience integration Salesforce with 3rd party APIs.
- Strong skills with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and UI frameworks within Visualforce pages or Lightning components.
- Experience with development tools such as Visual Force, Git.
- Deep understanding of the limitations on the Salesforce platform, specifically with governor limits and best practices in delivering solutions.
- Familiar with Salesforce Administration: configuration, standard data model, security, and automation such as validation rules, workflows, and process flows.
- Proficient with at least a one other backend language or environment (e.g. Java, Python, Node, etc..).
- Experience in working with complex Salesforce environments.
- Experience working on multiple projects, ability to QA your own work and others, and follow best practices.
- You pride yourself in writing clean code, test thoroughly, strong documentation, and high test coverage.
- Conducts code review in accordance with recommendations.
- Some experience with LWC (Lightning Web Components).
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