Salesforce Developer

REQ Solutions · New york, United States

Job Title: Salesforce Developer/Architect

Location: New York, NY 10005 (Hybrid - 3 Days on site)

Duration: 6 months Contract to Hire full-time

Position Overview

• This role requires strong systems thinking, product-mindedness, and technical leadership not just hands-on development.
• The ideal candidate is comfortable operating in ambiguous environments, leading distributed teams, and making pragmatic trade-offs that balance user needs, scalability, and delivery velocity.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and system design of Salesforce solutions end-to-end
• Translate ambiguous business goals into clear, scalable technical approaches
• Partner closely with product and business stakeholders to shape requirements and solution direction
• Lead and mentor offshore and distributed Salesforce developers
• Establish and enforce technical standards, code quality, and architectural consistency
• Review designs and implementations with an eye toward long-term maintainability and system health
• Identify risks early and drive pragmatic mitigation strategies
• Remain hands-on as needed to unblock delivery or prove patterns

Success Indicators

• Salesforce solutions are durable, understandable, and evolvable
• Strict adherence to operational rhythm and meeting hygiene
• Offshore teams operate with clarity, autonomy, and accountability
• Stakeholders trust technical recommendations and tradeoff decisions
• Delivery is predictable without sacrificing system integrity
• Complexity is actively reduced, not accumulated

Required Experience

• Significant experience designing and delivering Salesforce solutions at scale
• Demonstrated ownership of Salesforce system architecture (not just feature delivery)
• Experience leading offshore and/or distributed development teams
• Strong ability to reason about tradeoffs across performance, scalability, usability, and time-to-market
• Comfort working with incomplete or evolving requirements
• Clear, concise communication with both technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Profile

• Product-minded engineer who thinks in terms of user outcomes and system impact
• Independent, self-directed, and comfortable making decisions
• Experience working as an independent consultant, technical lead, and/or consultant
• Pragmatic approach to architecture knows when to go deep and when to keep things simple
• Salesforce Platform Developer I, Platform Developer II, and Architecture certifications

Not a Fit For

• Junior or mid-level development role
• Staff augmentation or ticket-only execution
• A role requiring step-by-step direction or tightly scoped requirements