Senior Salesforce Engineer

WHAT WE DO

Founded in 2007, Growth Acceleration Partners (GAP) is a consulting and technology services company. We consult, design, build and modernize revenue-generating software and data engineering solutions for clients. With modernization services and AI tools, we help businesses achieve a competitive advantage through technology. GAP’s remote, integrated engineering teams use end-to-end solutions to innovate and align with your business goals. We have 600+ English-speaking engineers based in Latin America and approximately 20 U.S.-based engineers. With some of the highest customer satisfaction scores in the industry, GAP’s focus is customer and employee success.

GAP is a woman-owned company headquartered in Austin Texas. We are a values-based company focused on growing our people by investing in education, onsite English classes and training in the latest technologies, including AI, data analytics and machine learning. Our goal is to provide solutions for our customers that help them achieve critical business outcomes, while enabling our GAPSters and our communities to attain long-term success.

Summary

We are looking for a Senior Salesforce Engineer with deep, specialized expertise in Apex development to lead, optimize, and secure our enterprise Salesforce environment for a global travel technology platform. In this high-impact role, you will take technical ownership of end-to-end Salesforce application development, security architectures, and CI/CD release management. Working closely with developers, administrators, and product stakeholders in an Agile environment, you will build high-performing, scalable solutions designed to handle complex data structures, mitigate record locking, and enforce strict platform security standards.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.

Professional Experience

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with 4+ years dedicated to Salesforce platform engineering

• Expert-level hands-on mastery of Apex development, with a strict focus on writing secure, maintainable, and high-performance code (MUST)

• Demonstrated experience enforcing Salesforce platform security standards, including sharing rules, field-level security, permission sets, and managed package constraints

• Proven track record managing Salesforce CI/CD release pipelines and deployments using tools like Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, SFDX, and VS Code

• Solid background in performance optimization, governor limit management, and record locking mitigation within complex, high-transaction Salesforce orgs

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain secure, scalable Salesforce applications with a primary emphasis on advanced Apex coding patterns

• Own the full software development lifecycle—from technical design and implementation through CI/CD release pipelines and production support

• Design and maintain automated deployment workflows, version control integration, and release procedures using Jenkins, GitHub/Bitbucket, and VS Code

• Implement and enforce platform security models, object/field-level permissions, and managed package integrations

• Monitor system logs, diagnose execution anomalies, and resolve record locking and query performance bottlenecks in complex org architectures

• Collaborate across cross-functional Agile teams to translate business requirements into clean, high-performance technical solutions

Required Technical Skills

Strong experience in several of the following areas:

• Advanced Apex & Salesforce Platform (MUST): Deep expertise in Apex (Triggers, Asynchronous Apex, Batchable, Queueable, Apex REST/SOAP), SOQL/SOSL, Visualforce, and Lightning Web Components (LWC)

• DevOps & CI/CD Pipelines: Hands-on experience with Salesforce CLI (SFDX), Git workflows (GitHub, Bitbucket), Jenkins, and VS Code

• Platform Security & Governance: Strong command of Sharing Rules, Role Hierarchy, Field-Level Security, Permission Sets, and Managed Packages

• Performance & Data Quality: Expertise in record locking resolution, transaction optimization, unit testing, and governor limit management

• Web Fundamentals: Core web development skills including JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, and RESTful API integrations

Nice to Have

• Frontend framework experience using Angular, RxJS, and TypeScript

• Experience with responsive design frameworks (Bootstrap) and CSS preprocessors (Sass/Less)

• Familiarity with package managers like NPM or Yarn

• Official Salesforce Certifications (e.g., Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I / II)

Soft Skills

• Advanced English proficiency (written and verbal)

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both engineering teams and business stakeholders

• Strong problem-solving, diagnostic, and decision-making capabilities within structured development processes

• High degree of technical autonomy, attention to detail, and eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies
  

At Growth Acceleration Partners, we're an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We value everyone's unique background, and we provide equal opportunities regardless of race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status or any other personal right protected by law. We foster a culture of belonging and strive to provide a welcoming environment where everyone feels safe to contribute and grow.