
Salesforce Developer
Required skills
- Salesforce
- Apex
- Lightning Web Components
- LWCs
- API services
- federal government contract
- mission-critical
- requirements
- user stories
- product backlog
Nice to have
- Salesforce certifications
- Platform Developer I
- Administrator
- Platform App Builder
- federal government agencies
- consulting environment
Role summary
A consulting firm is seeking a Salesforce Developer to support a federal government contract. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining custom Salesforce solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWCs), and API services. Responsibilities include collaborating with stakeholders, translating requirements into technical solutions, participating in agile ceremonies, ensuring security and compliance, and managing deployments. Candidates must meet specific education and experience requirements, with a preference for those with Salesforce certifications and experience in federal government or consulting environments. The position is remote but requires residency in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area.
We are a consulting firm specializing in delivering innovative technology solutions to federal government customers. Our team is committed to excellence, collaboration, and empowering our clients through best-in-class Salesforce solutions. We are seeking a Salesforce Developer to support a federal government contract, ensuring mission success through technical expertise, professionalism, and innovation.
Position Overview
The Salesforce Developer will design, build, and maintain Salesforce solutions that will enable our federal customer to achieve mission-critical objectives. This role will be hands-on with Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWCs), and integrations, while collaborating with administrators, consultants, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.
- Develop custom Salesforce applications, components, and integrations using Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components, and API services.
- Collaborate with consultants and stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver high-quality compliant solutions.
- Support capture of feedback by incorporating them as user stories and tasks in the product backlog and assists in prioritizing them for implementation in subsequent sprint cycles.
- Assist in decomposition of complex capabilities into testable user stories and tasks working in close coordination with the development teams.
- Prepare, participate, and engage in sprint review / integration solution design demo sessions by presenting and addressing technical queries as needed.
- Proactively identifies potential risks and supports devising strategies and implementing them.
- Ensure solutions adhere to Salesforce leading practices and federal security and compliance standards.
- Participate in code reviews, testing, debugging, and release management.
- Assess vulnerability scan results and resolve issues as directed by government.
- Manage deployment activities and deliverables from Dev environment to additional government environments as needed.
- Maintain documentation, technical designs, and deployment procedures.
- Provide technical support and troubleshooting for deployed solutions.
- Support all agile ceremonies as requested including sprint planning, backlog grooming, technical spikes, sprint reviews, and demos.
Required Qualifications
- Education & Experience (must meet one of the following):
- Bachelor’s degree + 3 years of Salesforce or relevant software development experience, OR
- Associate’s degree + 5 years of Salesforce or relevant software development experience, OR
- High School Diploma/GED + 7 years of Salesforce or relevant software development experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Additional Salesforce certifications (e.g., Platform Developer I, Administrator, Platform App Builder).
- Experience supporting federal government agencies or working in a consulting environment.
- Knowledge of Salesforce DevOps tools (e.g., Copado, Gearset, or Git-based workflows).
- Familiarity with Salesforce security, compliance, and FedRAMP requirements.
- Strong critical thinking skills and ability to work in collaborative, cross-functional teams.
Work Environment
- This role supports a federal government customer; candidates must meet all background and eligibility requirements.
- Remote work but must be in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area
SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- AD&D
- STD
- LTD
- Company paid Life Insurance
- 401k with employer contribution
- Paid Time Off
- Pet Insurance
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