Salesforce Engineer III

Paychex•Town of Henrietta, NY

16h

About The Position

Paychex is reimagining how businesses manage their workforce by bringing payroll, HR, benefits, and advisory services together into a single connected HCM platform. As Paychex and Paycor come together, we're combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, AI, and human expertise to help organizations work smarter, support their people, and achieve better business outcomes. This is an exciting time to join our team as we continue to invest in innovation, simplify client experiences, and shape the future of work. At Paychex, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, make a meaningful impact, and be part of something bigger as One Paychex. We are seeking a Salesforce Software Engineer III to serve as a hands-on engineer supporting our Salesforce Sales Cloud platform and broader sales technology ecosystem. This individual will design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable Salesforce solutions that strengthen lead management, opportunity management, forecasting, pipeline visibility, seller productivity, and AI-enabled experiences. The ideal candidate brings strong experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components, Salesforce Flow, platform configuration, data modeling, security, and enterprise integrations, and can independently translate business requirements and solution designs into reliable technical implementations. This role will actively contribute across the full software development lifecycle, including estimation, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, production troubleshooting, and ongoing platform maintenance, while collaborating closely with technical leads, architects, product owners, and business partners. Success requires strong problem-solving skills, attention to quality, clear communication, and the ability to deliver maintainable solutions in a large-scale Agile environment.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer related discipline or equivalent work experience
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Hands-on Salesforce application development
Apex development and triggers
Lightning Web Components (LWC)
SOQL and SOSL
Salesforce Flow and platform automation
Salesforce configuration, data modeling, and security
REST and SOAP API integrations
Unit testing, debugging, and root-cause analysis
Git-based source control and CI/CD practices
Agile delivery methodologies
Ability to interpret requirements and solution designs

Nice To Haves

Agentforce, Einstein AI, Prompt Builder, or related Salesforce AI capabilities
Lead-to-opportunity lifecycle management
Forecasting and pipeline management solutions
Enterprise Salesforce implementation experience
Automated testing and test data management
Production support in a large-scale Salesforce environment
Azure DevOps, Git, Copado, or Gearset
Salesforce Data Cloud, CRM Analytics, or related platform capabilities
Salesforce Platform Developer I or Platform Developer II certification

Responsibilities

Develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software to meet requirements
Design and develop test automation code
Complete complex program changes; self-directed
Perform comprehensive analysis and design for broadly defined requirements
Make significant technical contributions; contribute to technical direction
Provide estimates required for user stories based on business requirements, specifications and designs
Comply with and contribute to SDLC standards and CD/CI procedures to ensure consistency; introduce new standards and opportunities for improvements
Monitor progress against task estimates to provide status
Provide technical support and troubleshooting for applications across environments, including high impact production issues
Maintain existing code base, monitoring for failures in non-prod environments
Support changes during quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and post implementation to ensure integrity of application
Share technical expertise; guide and mentor others to maximize team effectiveness and quality
Subject Matter Expert in a relevant technology or Paychex application