
Lead Developer- Salesforce
ZEISS Group2 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead Salesforce development activities across configuration, customization, Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, automation, integrations, and platform enhancements.
- Design and deliver scalable, secure, maintainable, and high-performing Salesforce solutions across business processes.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs, reusable components, integration patterns, and implementation approaches.
- Mentor developers, conduct code reviews, provide design guidance and troubleshooting support, and enforce Salesforce development best practices.
- Collaborate with architects, business analysts, QA teams, product owners, and stakeholders to estimate work, manage dependencies, support testing, and deliver releases.
- Contribute to release planning, deployment validation, documentation, technical governance, and continuous improvement of Salesforce delivery processes.
- Design, build, and deploy AI-driven Salesforce solutions using Agentforce, AI agents, automation, prompt engineering, and Salesforce platform services.
- Support user acceptance testing, post-release support, technical risk management, and delivery quality.
Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on Salesforce development experience, including at least 2 years as a Lead Developer, Tech Lead, or in a similar technical leadership role.
- Strong experience with Salesforce configuration, customization, automation, security, data models, integrations, scalable solution design, and development patterns.
- Hands-on expertise with Apex, triggers, batch Apex, scheduled Apex, queueable Apex, SOQL, SOSL, Lightning Web Components, Visualforce, and Salesforce development patterns.
- Experience with Flows, validation rules, approval processes, profiles, permission sets, roles, users, page layouts, record types, and dynamic forms.
- Understanding of Salesforce objects, governor limits, transaction boundaries, code coverage, performance optimization, security models, sharing rules, and data visibility.
- Experience with REST and SOAP APIs, middleware integrations, platform events, outbound messages, connected apps, authentication mechanisms, and integration error handling.
- Experience with Visual Studio Code, Salesforce CLI, Data Loader, Workbench, Data Import Wizard, metadata deployment tools, Copado, Bitbucket, and Git.
- Strong Lightning Web Components experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and modern front-end development standards.
- Good knowledge of Salesforce CPQ, including product configuration, pricing, quoting, customization, and integrations.
- Knowledge of Salesforce Experience Cloud, including customer and partner portals, user access, branding, navigation, and portal-specific development.
- Experience with Agile delivery, Scrum practices, DevOps processes, CI/CD, release governance, and JIRA.
- Experience using AI-powered development tools across requirements analysis, code generation, testing, documentation, and productivity optimization while following security, compliance, data privacy, and responsible AI guidelines.
- Knowledge of Salesforce Agentforce and AI capabilities, including AI agents, automation, prompt engineering, and Salesforce platform integrations.
- Ability to lead Salesforce development teams, mentor developers, manage technical risks, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and work independently.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, MCA, or a related discipline is preferred.
- Salesforce certifications such as Platform Developer I/II, Administrator, Platform App Builder, Sales Cloud Consultant, Service Cloud Consultant, or CPQ Specialist are preferred.
- Experience working in global, distributed, or cross-cultural teams and strong communication, analytical, troubleshooting, organizational, and stakeholder interaction skills are preferred.
Benefits
- Opportunity to lead impactful Salesforce initiatives across business-critical CRM processes.
- Collaborative environment with exposure to global teams, modern Salesforce capabilities, Agile delivery, and DevOps practices.
- Role combining hands-on development, technical leadership, stakeholder collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Opportunities for technical growth, leadership responsibilities, exploration of modern Salesforce capabilities, and long-term career development at ZEISS.