Checkatrade
Senior Engineer (Salesforce)
Job Description
Salary: £49,000 - 89,000 per year
Requirements:- Solid, hands-on professional software engineering experience, including strong Salesforce development across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Salesforce DevOps.
- Experience writing clean, asynchronous Apex (triggers, batch, queueable), responsive LWC components and complex Flows, backed by solid general engineering skills beyond the platform.
- A genuine handle on AI-driven coding methods, including how to give AI models the right architectural context, schemas and constraints to produce accurate, secure, production-ready code.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise integration patterns, including large data volumes, platform events and API error handling.
- Experience managing CI/CD pipelines, change management and environment refreshes.
- Design, build and maintain high-performance solutions across Apex, LWC and advanced declarative features, primarily across Sales and Service clouds.
- Work with Zuora, Retool, Braze CRM, and extend node/Typescript services hosted on Kubernetes on GCP.
- Use AI coding tools with confidence to move faster without cutting corners on quality.
- Architect secure, scalable integrations between Salesforce and other core services, including inbound and outbound REST APIs and platform event-driven workflows.
- Work alongside distributed engineering and data teams to keep data flowing cleanly and system architecture cohesive.
- Own and improve deployment pipelines spanning Salesforce and other services so releases to production are smooth, automated and reliable.
- Champion code quality by writing thorough tests, running solid code reviews, and helping others get the best out of AI-assisted development while sharing Salesforce expertise where it counts most.
- AI
- Apex
- API
- Architect
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- CRM
- DevOps
- GCP
- Support
- Kubernetes
- LWC
- REST
- Salesforce
- TypeScript
- NodeJS
More:
Were Checkatrade, the UKs leading platform for finding a tradesperson. With more than 50,000 trades listed and over 6 million reviews, we help homeowners get jobs done right and help tradespeople grow their business. Were growing fast, with big plans to become the go-to brand for home improvements. We offer a competitive salary plus annual bonus, an Employee Share Programme, health, well-being and learning support, gym membership, Smart Tech Scheme and Cycle Scheme, birthday/special day leave, a buy & sell holiday scheme, and 1 weeks paid charity leave. This full-time role sits within our Research & Development team, with locations in Moorgate, London; Barcelona, Spain; and Lakeside, Portsmouth.
last updated 37 week of 2026
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