Salesforce Developer

🏢 Optimal Growth Technologies · all 7 jobs
📍 South Africa
📅 Posted Sep 4, 2026 · via Himalayas
🏷 Salesforce Developer, Salesforce Engineer, CRM Developer, Salesforce Lightning Developer, Platform Developer, Salesforce CRM Developer +7 more
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Salesforce Developer
Contract Duration: 12 Months (EST TIME ZONE)
Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Salesforce Developer to join our team on a 12-month contract. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, enhancing, and maintaining Salesforce solutions to support business requirements and drive continuous platform improvement.

This role requires a strong hands-on Salesforce development background, excellent problem-solving abilities, and strong communication skills. The successful candidate must be comfortable working independently in a remote environment while collaborating with stakeholders and technical teams.
Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, test, and implement Salesforce solutions based on business requirements.

- Develop and maintain custom functionality using Salesforce development technologies.

- Build and enhance Apex classes, triggers, Lightning components, and other Salesforce solutions.

- Develop and maintain integrations between Salesforce and external systems.

- Collaborate with Salesforce Administrators, Business Analysts, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.

- Troubleshoot and resolve complex Salesforce application and integration issues.

- Perform code reviews and ensure development follows Salesforce best practices.

- Support system enhancements, upgrades, releases, and continuous improvement initiatives.

- Ensure the performance, scalability, security, and reliability of Salesforce solutions.

- Develop and maintain technical documentation.

- Stay up to date with Salesforce technologies and recommend innovative solutions where appropriate.

Technical Requirements

- 7+ years of Salesforce Development experience.

- Exceptional hands-on experience in Salesforce development.

- Strong experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Visualforce, SOQL, and Salesforce APIs.

- Experience with Salesforce integrations and REST/SOAP APIs.

- Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture and development best practices.

- Experience working with Salesforce Lightning.

- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

- Experience with source control and deployment processes is advantageous.

Key Competencies

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

- Ability to work independently and manage priorities effectively.

- Strong attention to detail.

- Ability to collaborate effectively within remote and distributed teams.

- Commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions.

Originally posted on Himalayas

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