Senior Salesforce Software Engineer

Salary: £85,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on Salesforce development experience, ideally within a product, SaaS or ISV environment
• Advanced knowledge of Apex, SOQL, JavaScript, Salesforce Lightning and Lightning Web Components
• Good understanding, and ideally practical experience, of Salesforce solution design and architecture
• Ability to design scalable, secure and maintainable solutions while considering Salesforce platform limits, data model, integrations and performance
• Solid object-oriented programming background, for example in Java or C#, with strong software engineering fundamentals
• Experience contributing to architecture reviews, technical roadmaps or design governance
• Exposure to Salesforce REST APIs, integrations and enterprise application architecture
• Experience with Git, Jira, IntelliJ, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing strategies
• Salesforce Platform Developer certification, or architecture-related Salesforce certifications
• Interest in AI-driven product capabilities and how they can be embedded into Salesforce-based solutions

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain enterprise-grade Salesforce product features with a strong focus on scalability, maintainability and performance
• Translate complex business requirements into clear technical designs and robust implementation plans
• Contribute actively to Salesforce architecture discussions, design reviews and long-term product decisions
• Apply strong object-oriented design principles, automated testing practices, code quality standards and CI/CD ways of working
• Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, technical guidance and knowledge sharing

Technologies:

• AI
• Apex
• C#
• CI/CD
• Embedded
• Git
• IntelliJ
• Support
• JIRA
• Java
• JavaScript
• Lightning Web Components
• REST
• Sage
• Salesforce
• Web
• Visualforce

More:

We are Sage People, a global HR and people management SaaS product built on the Salesforce Force.com platform, serving customers worldwide. We build and evolve one product with a strong focus on code quality, scalability, performance and long-term architecture. Our engineering team is stable, close-knit and supportive, with daily collaboration between engineers, testers, architects and product managers in a hybrid working model based in Winnersh, near Reading. We offer a competitive salary with bonus, pension, generous annual leave, health and wellbeing coverage, paid volunteer days, ongoing training and professional development, and the opportunity to work in a modern, welcoming office with strong investment in AI and Salesforce innovation.

last updated 31 week of 2026