Backend Developer (Salesforce)

Are you interested in joining of Europe's fastest growing companies? Do you want to impact the wellbeing of millions of users?
If yes, join us to make an impact in a fast-paced and dynamic environment where you’ll play a key role in driving financial accountability, supporting strategic decisions, and enabling sustainable growth.

Epassi’s purpose is to boost everyday well-being. We are a leading provider of employee benefit solutions across Europe. We were established in Finland in 2007, and in 2008 we were the first company to launch a mobile-payable employee benefit payment solution in Europe. Since then, we have consistently grown, diversifying our products and introducing our services into new markets.
Epassi has been awarded by the Financial Times as one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe on multiple occasions.

We are currently hiring Backend Developer (Salesforce) to be based in Milan.

Your mission at Epassi

As part of the Engineering team at Eudaimon – part of the Epassi Group, you will play a key role in shaping the evolution of our digital corporate welfare platforms. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to the design, development, and continuous improvement of reliable, scalable, and user‑centric solutions that support thousands of employees and partner companies across Italy.

You’ll be successful in this role if you:

You will work directly impact the quality, performance, and innovation of the systems that power Epassi’s mission: enabling better everyday wellbeing through intuitive, secure, and modern technology. By bringing your expertise, curiosity, and ownership mindset, you will help us build the next generation of our platform while supporting the broader transformation toward a more modular, cloud‑based, future‑ready architecture.

• What you’ll be doing (daily):
  
  Collaborate with product managers, analysts, and developers to analyze requirements and design new features and enhancements.
• Develop and maintain backend services using Java and Apex, aligned with the architecture evolution toward an AWS‑based middleware.
• Maintain and extend Salesforce customizations using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flow Builder, and administration tools.
• Support the integration between Salesforce and external systems (APIs, middleware, ETL pipelines).
• Optimize data structures, workflow logic, and data synchronization between Salesforce and backend systems.
• Work with REST APIs, authentication protocols (OAuth2, SAML), and internal/external system communication.
• Collaborate with the global DevOps team to ensure smooth CI/CD pipelines, deployment practices, and environment management.
• Utilize Salesforce's Agentforce to build interaction flows with users.
• Ensure high performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability across all components.
• Support the transition of logic from Salesforce to the AWS middleware where appropriate.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, debugging, and continuous improvement of the engineering practices at Epassi.

What we are looking for:

• 3+ years of experience as a Backend Developer (Java is preferred)
• Practical experience maintaining or integrating with Salesforce (Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flow Builder, and Salesforce internal administration tools)
• Basic knowledge of Agentforce and building user interaction flows.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs, backend services, and system integrations.
• Familiarity with SAML and OAuth2 authentication standards.
• Good knowledge of SQL, SOQL, and general data modeling principles.
• Experience with GitHub and collaborative version control workflows.
• Exposure to AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with ETL/ELT or data integration tools (Talend, SSIS, custom pipelines) is a plus.
• Solid understanding of backend architecture, modular design, and clean code practices.
• Strong analytical mindset and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

You'll be successful in this role, if you:

• Deliver reliable, scalable, and mainta