Senior Salesforce Engineer

Job Advert What does a Senior Salesforce Engineer do? A Senior Salesforce Engineer at Love2shop, is responsible for designing, developing, and optimising innovative solutions on the Salesforce platform to drive business growth and unlock new efficiencies. This role combines technical expertise with a forward-thinking mindset to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing applications. You will collaborate closely with the product owners and business stakeholders, champion Salesforce best practices, and continuously explore new capabilities to create momentum for our digital transformation.

You’ll be part of a collaborative, cross functional engineering team, contributing to the full development lifecycle: from shaping technical solutions and writing high quality code, to ensuring our platforms meet the regulatory, data protection, and security standards expected of a leading payments and rewards provider. This is a hands on role for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, mentoring others, and building products that genuinely make a difference.

Key Responsibilities Solution Design & Development
• Develop and test Salesforce solutions using declarative tools and programmatic approaches (Apex, Lightning Web Components and Visualforce).
• Build customised applications on the  platform to solve complex business challenges.
• Develop and maintain integrations between Salesforce and other systems using APIs, middleware, and ETL tools.
• Support strategic decisions on leveraging out-of-the-box functionality versus custom development to maximise platform value.

Platform Administration & Governance
• Manage user accounts, roles, profiles, permission sets, and licence allocation.
• Configure and maintain standard and custom objects, fields, page layouts, record types, and automation flows.
• Monitor platform health, usage, and limits (e.g., API calls, storage) and proactively address issues.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation, including configuration, data models, and integration architecture.

Operational Support & Release Management
• Support environment and release management, including sandbox strategy and deployment processes (ANT, GIT, Data Loader).
• Participate in agile delivery cycles, contributing to sprint planning, development, testing, and deployment.
• Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting for complex issues escalated from support teams.

Data Integrity & Compliance
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and security across Salesforce and integrated systems.
• Embed GDPR and internal data protection policies in all development and configuration activities.
• Conduct periodic audits and access reviews to maintain compliance.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
• Evangelise Salesforce within the organisation, promoting best practices and innovative use cases.
• Stay current with Salesforce releases and emerging technologies, recommending enhancements to improve efficiency and user experience.
• Support user adoption through technical enablement and creation of knowledge resources. What we would like from you
• Salesforce Platform Developer 1 essential.
• Salesforce Administrator certification (ADM-201) and Platform App Builder
• Proven experience in Salesforce development and engineering, including Apex, Lightning Web Components, and declarative tools.
• Hands-on experience with integrations (REST/SOAP APIs, middleware, ETL tools).
• Strong understanding of the Salesforce platform, security model, and performance optimisation.
• Desirable:

Experience with Marketing Cloud, Azure services, and data pipelines. Our benefits if you decide to join us:
• 25 days’ holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Company pension scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• UK health care cover
• Staff Everyday Benefits card offering discounts with multiple retailers (10%)
• Corporate travel scheme with Merseyrail, Northern rail, Arriva & Transport for Wales
• Fabulous kitchen space which offers free tea and coffee
• Faith room open to all denominations along with dedicated kitchen space for Halal and Kosher food preparation
• Family friendly leave
• Community volunteering policy which allows you 2 days per year to support the community with charitable events

As a disability-confident committed company, we have a passion for championing equality. We welcome all colleagues into a work environment where success is attainable for everyone, regardless of disability, age, race, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We are committed to ensuring that everyone has equal access to growth and opportunities in our workplace. Contract type Permanent Hours 35 Salary Competitive Benefits Competitive REF-229 320