Senior Salesforce Developer

We need a senior Salesforce developer who can take ownership of the platform that powers Funeral Cover, Life Cover and Credit Insurance for millions of South Africans - and help us build what comes next. What you'll do here You'll work on a platform that manages the full insurance lifecycle - from quote to claim - at scale, for real clients who depend on it. Specifically, you'll: Lead Salesforce architectural decisions across our Insurance platform Build and extend capabilities for policy lifecycle management, claims processing and client relationship management Design and implement integrations across policy administration, claims intake, adjudication and payment processing Build and maintain complex Apex logic, Lightning Web Components and Salesforce Flows that drive our insurance operations Ensure our platform scales reliably as our insurance business grows - across Life Cover, Funeral Cover and Credit Insurance Mentor junior and intermediate developers on the team Drive development standards and engineering best practices within the Salesforce space Evaluate and introduce Salesforce capabilities that move our Insurance platform forward Your tech stack Salesforce Financial Services Cloud - our insurance platform foundation Apex, LWC, Salesforce Flow - how we build and extend the platform REST/SOAP APIs, Platform Events, Change Data Capture - how we integrate Java - your back-end foundation, directly transferable here Salesforce DX & CLI - source-driven development and deployment pipelines What you bring Experience 6+ years of software development experience, with meaningful Salesforce platform exposure Back-end development experience in Java or similar object-oriented languages, considered a strong foundation for Salesforce development A track record of designing and delivering complex Salesforce solutions end-to-end Experience working in regulated or financial services environments is a strong advantage The ability to explain technical decisions clearly - to engineers, architects and business stakeholders A genuine interest in growing the engineers around you Education Minimum: Grade 12 National Certificate Preferred: A relevant tertiary qualification in information technology Certifications Required: Salesforce Platform Developer I Preferred: Salesforce Platform Developer II, Salesforce Administrator, or Salesforce Financial Services Cloud accreditation Knowledge You can apply expert-level knowledge and develop others' understanding across: Apex programming - triggers, service classes, batch Apex, queueable Apex and scheduled Apex Lightning Web Components - component structure, data connectivity, cross-component communication and Lightning Design System Salesforce Flow - record-triggered flows, screen flows, scheduled flows and auto-launched flows SOQL and SOSL - efficient querying, governor limit management and multi-object data retrieval Insurance-specific data modelling - policies, claims, coverages, participants and financial transactions API integration - REST and SOAP services, Named Credentials, OAuth 2.0 and external system authentication Apex test class design - unit tests, integration tests and bulk operation tests with meaningful coverage IT systems development processes (SDLC) and version control