Senior Salesforce Developer

University of Texas at Austin•Austin, TX

5d•$99,139•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Salesforce Developer is a hands-on software developer responsible for designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting custom and standard solutions across Dell Medical School’s Salesforce ecosystem. Working in partnership with the Senior Salesforce Engineer and business, data, security, and delivery teams, this role translates complex healthcare, fundraising, constituent-engagement, and analytics requirements into secure, scalable applications. The position develops production-quality Apex, Lightning Web Components, integrations, automation, and data solutions across Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud, Data Cloud with Marketing Cloud Next, and Health Cloud. The developer applies disciplined software engineering practices, including source control, automated testing, code review, documentation, and secure handling of PHI/PII, while implementing new Salesforce solutions and improving platform reliability and user experience. The Senior Salesforce Developer designs, develops, tests, deploys, and supports production-grade solutions across the Salesforce ecosystem. This role provides advanced hands-on Salesforce development using Apex, Lightning Web Components, integrations, APIs, automation, and data technologies while supporting Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud, Data Cloud with Marketing Cloud Next, and Health Cloud. The position partners with technical and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into secure, scalable, maintainable solutions while applying software engineering, DevOps, testing, documentation, privacy, and security best practices.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Six years of professional software development experience, including at least four years of hands-on Salesforce development using Apex and Lightning technologies and at least two years delivering complex enterprise Salesforce solutions.
Production implementation experience with Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud, Data Cloud, and Health Cloud.
Experience with Salesforce integrations, including APIs, Apex, and SOQL.
Equivalent education and experience may be substituted.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting Salesforce in healthcare, higher education, philanthropy, fundraising, or nonprofit program environments.
Master’s degree in Business Administration or a related field.
Salesforce Certified Developer or Administrator.
Experience with Salesforce Health Cloud and Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud.
Salesforce Platform Developer I.
Salesforce Platform Developer II.
Salesforce JavaScript Developer I.
Salesforce Data Cloud Consultant.
Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Consultant.
Salesforce Health Cloud Accredited Professional or equivalent role-relevant credential.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and maintain production-grade Apex classes, triggers, batch and queueable jobs, scheduled processes, platform event handlers, and reusable service-layer components.
Build accessible, responsive Lightning Web Components and scalable, performant Apex using secure client-server communication patterns.
Create comprehensive unit and integration tests.
Refactor legacy Visualforce, Aura, Apex, and automation where appropriate; document design decisions and reduce technical debt without disrupting critical operations.
Develop and extend Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud capabilities supporting fundraising activities.
Support Data Cloud ingestion, data streams, mappings, segmentation, and activation, and troubleshoot data quality and harmonization issues.
Support Marketing Cloud Next activation and segmentation responsibilities when appropriate.
Build Health Cloud solutions supporting outreach to patients, providers, and care teams and supporting service coordination while protecting PHI and PII.
Partner with the Senior Salesforce Engineer on scalable solution design.
Develop and support REST and SOAP integrations, Apex callouts, named and external credentials, platform events, Change Data Capture, middleware connections, and secure file-based exchanges.
Design reliable integration behavior, including authentication, idempotency, retries, error queues, monitoring, reconciliation, and operational support procedures.
Write efficient SOQL and SOSL and support high-volume data loads, migrations, transformations, deduplication, and archival while maintaining referential integrity and auditability.
Collaborate with enterprise data, analytics, integration, and security teams on canonical models, Data Cloud pipelines, BI/MDM connections, and interface contracts.
Use Salesforce DX, version control, package or metadata deployment approaches, and CI/CD pipelines for releases.
Participate in estimation, technical design, peer code review, static analysis, automated testing, regression testing, defect triage, and release validation.
Diagnose performance, automation, integration, sharing, and data issues using logs and platform monitoring; perform root-cause analysis and implement durable fixes.
Maintain technical documentation, release notes, runbooks, dependency maps, and support handoffs.
Contribute to coding standards and reusable development patterns.
Work within an Agile delivery team to refine requirements, define acceptance criteria, demonstrate completed solutions, and communicate technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Provide advanced production support and participate in planned after-hours release windows or critical incident response as needed.
Mentor developers and administrators through pairing, code reviews, documentation, and practical guidance on secure Salesforce development.
Build prototypes or technical spikes to evaluate Salesforce releases, new platform capabilities, AppExchange products, and integration approaches.
Support access reviews, security assessments, audit evidence collection, disaster-recovery exercises, and remediation of code or configuration vulnerabilities.
Assist with production data corrections, deployment coordination, environment refreshes, and post-release validation.
Contribute to project planning, vendor technical reviews, and statements of work when development dependencies or estimates are required.
Create knowledge-transfer materials and provide technical enablement for administrators, analysts, support teams, and super users.