Principal Applications Developer – Salesforce

Overview

Why Orthofix? Guided by our organizational values – Take Ownership | Innovate Boldly | Win Together – we collaborate closely with world-class surgeons and other partners to improve people’s quality of life. Our global team of over 1,600 employees brings to market highly innovative, cost-effective, and user-friendly medical technologies that heal musculoskeletal pathologies for patients and the healthcare professionals who treat them.

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JOB PURPOSE

The Principal Applications Developer – Salesforce will be responsible to develop and support both Salesforce and Mule Soft applications for the Commercial Systems team within IT. The position will support systems that interact with our patients, physician clients, hospital clients, sales force, payers, and supply chain partners. The primary focus is Salesforce development & Platform Ownership; additional responsibilities may include development in .Net

and Sql Server development support tasks. The position will work with business users and other developers to understand and evaluate functional requirements, review technology/application alternatives, and develop technical solutions that support our business needs.

This role is Salesforce-centric (approximately 60–70% Salesforce / 30–40% Mule Soft) and is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys building scalable platform solutions while contributing to enterprise integrations through Mule Soft. You will work closely with architects, admins, product owners, and integration teams to deliver secure, maintainable, and high-performing solutions across the Salesforce ecosystem.

• Lightning Web Components (LWC), advanced Apex development, data model ownership, security architecture, and release management
• Design, develop, and maintain complex Salesforce applications using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), and declarative automation (Flows).
• Own and evolve Salesforce data models, including object design, relationships, indexing strategies, and data lifecycle management.
• Build reusable LWC frameworks and components with a strong emphasis on performance, accessibility, and user experience.
• Implement advanced Apex patterns:
  Bulkified triggers and services, Asynchronous processing (Queueable, Batch, Scheduled Apex), Transaction management and error handling
• Define and enforce Salesforce security architecture, including:
  Profiles, permission sets, permission set groups;
  Sharing rules, role hierarchy, manual sharing;
  Field‑level security (FLS), CRUD, and secure Apex patterns
• Partner with Salesforce Admins and Architects to determine when to use Flow vs. code and to reduce technical debt.
• Drive Sales Force code reviews, automated testing (unit, integration, deployment validation and monitoring).
• Mentor other developers and provide code reviews with a focus on quality and scalability
• Collaborate with product managers, BAs, QA, and Dev Ops teams in an Agile environment
• Support production software operations during normal business and off-hours, providing root-cause analysis for issues and reviewing with the team
• Research external software solutions

• Design and develop integrations using Mule Soft Anypoint Platform (Mule 4, Data Weave, Yaml) to connect Salesforce with external systems.
• Implement API-led connectivity patterns (System, Process, Experience APIs).
• Develop RESTful APIs and integration flows.
• Apply security and reliability best practices: OAuth2 / JWT, Error handling and retries, Logging, monitoring, and alerting (Mule Soft, Data Dog)
• Collaborate with integration architects to ensure Salesforce integration patterns align with enterprise standards.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues related to performance, data integrity, and automation conflicts.
• Collaborate with other team members to perform code reviews and ensure stability, performance, and security best practice is maintained
• Maintain advanced technical skills and stay abreast of current technologies and trends that can be…