Salesforce Platform Engineer

Overview

Salesforce Platform Engineer — Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Engineer

Industry: Financial Services

Workplace Type: Remote

Reference : JN -

Date Posted: 02/01/2026

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Our client is a large U.S. financial institution headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, operating more than a thousand branches and thousands of ATMs across multiple states. It is a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest banks in the United States, formed through a merger of predecessor banks in 1908.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $65.00 to $75.00/hr. w2

• Refactor Apex code to handle increased data volumes.
• Update integration logic to support new products and evolving data structures.
• Develop unit tests and deployment-ready code aligned with Salesforce best practices.
• Document code changes and performance improvements.
• Maintain platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability.
• Design and guide system architecture, mentoring peers and challenging designs as needed.
• Develop and maintain a public API.
• Deliver robust and extensible solutions from feature requests.
• Collaborate with data teams using technologies such as Kafka, Hadoop, and Spark.
• Partner with data scientists to build value-added features.
• Work with DBAs to create ETL processes and data warehouse systems.
• Automate solutions with operations to improve service reliability.
• Monitor production systems supporting the platform.
• Build tools and processes for analytics, monitoring, machine learning, and data warehousing.
• Define and implement strategies for networking, backups, and distributed deployments.
• Provision, configure, maintain, back up, and monitor on-premises and cloud server resources.
• Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal tools.
• Continuously improve alerting and monitoring systems.

• Advanced Apex programming and Salesforce development experience.
• Knowledge of Salesforce APIs, triggers, and batch processing.
• Experience optimizing code for high-volume data loads.
• Familiarity with integration patterns and external system connectivity.
• Strong debugging and performance tuning skills.
• Experience in software and systems development.
• Background building production-grade software systems.
• Working knowledge of at least one language such as PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, or Go.
• Linux administration experience.
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, or Google Cloud.
• Understanding of IT security best practices.
• Experience with automation and configuration tools such as Puppet or Ansible, and orchestration tools such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
• Understanding of computer networks.
• Experience administering systems at production scale.

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Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position.

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