Lead Salesforce Developer

Bullhorn's core purpose is to create an incredible customer experience, and the organization has a sharp focus on delivering very high quality products and services to its customers. The company culture is shaped by five Core Values: Ownership, Energy, Speed & Agility, Service, and Being Human. Each value, and its underlying definition, serves as a behavioral guide for employees as they interact with customers and fellow coworkers and is an embedded way of operating across our organization.

Bullhorn is a fast-paced and dynamic environment where hard work and outstanding results are rewarded and celebrated. We value those that exhibit an eagerness to learn and a strong natural desire for continuous improvement and we encourage team members to stretch themselves, acknowledge challenges and learn from them. With a strong focus on growth, we provide ample opportunities for career development and prioritize promoting from within. We believe that leaders should care deeply about the development of their employees at all levels, emphasizing emotional intelligence and accountability. Our leaders collaborate closely to ensure the success of their teams, and we work together to achieve shared goals, creating a challenging and rewarding workplace for everyone.

About the Role

Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Applications, the Lead Salesforce Developer will be the technical authority for our internal Salesforce platform, supporting both our lead to cash and customer experience functions. This role will drive scalable, secure, and maintainable Salesforce solutions while mentoring developers and partnering closely with the Enterprise Applications leadership team to ensure best practice designs to meet our business stakeholders operational needs. The ideal candidate combines deep Salesforce development expertise with strong leadership and collaboration skills. You will ensure the development team will build high-quality solutions, while promoting engineering best practices.

A typical day will include

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of scalable and maintainable Salesforce solutions across CPQ, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Service Cloud Voice and Experience Cloud.

• Design and implement custom Apex code, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows, and integrations using Salesforce APIs, leveraging AI tools (Agentforce Vibes/Claude) to enhance productivity. 

• Identify opportunities to develop and deploy AI-powered experiences using Salesforce Agentforce, Einstein Copilot, and other AI tools to enhance user productivity, automate routine tasks, and deliver smarter customer interactions.

• Participate in the Change Control Board and review tickets to ensure work items are well-defined, business objectives are clearly communicated, identify risks early, provide practical mitigation strategies and design considerations in advance of refinement. 

• Collaborate with Salesforce Product Owner to manage refined backlog and assign work to developers based capacity, skillset and reduction of component overlap.

• Mentor junior developers and provide code reviews, best practices, and architectural guidance.

• Review third party vendors design documentation to ensure scalability of proposed solutions and identify impact to ongoing work by the internal development team. 

• Review and resolve code conflicts during deployments across environments.

• Integrate Salesforce with external systems (REST/SOAP APIs, middleware tools) and ensure data integrity, security, and performance.

• Stay current on Salesforce releases, new AI capabilities, and industry trends to recommend improvements and innovation.

This role is a fit for you if

• 6+ years of hands-on Salesforce development experience.

• Strong development experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOQL/SOSL, and Salesforce Flows.

• Proven experience integrating with RESTful APIs and external systems.

• Experience with Agentforce, Einstein Copilot, Einstein Bots, or other AI/ML tools within the Salesforce ecosystem.

• Experience designing scalable Salesforce solutions for internal business systems, balancing technical excellence with practical business outcomes

• Strong understanding of Salesforce security, data model design and platform governance.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative, agile delivery team.

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