Fullstack Developer: Salesforce

Recruiter:

wePlace

Job Ref:

JHB000566/DC

Date posted:

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

Salary:

Market Annually

SUMMARY:

One of South Africa's Banking Giants is looking for a Fullstack Developer that specializes in Salesforce to join their team.

POSITION INFO:

Purpose Statement:
To successfully customize, develop and support solutions on the Force.com platform and contribute to our development in Salesforce products, through the completion of complex projects and development

Key Tasks & Accountabilities:
Delivery and quality.

Participate in a cross-functional team that is responsible for the full software development life cycle from conception to deployment of each new product.
Design, develop, test, document and deploy, and support new and existing systems and software applications from supplied specifications in accordance with agreed standards:
Quality:
- Perform quality tests / performance testing by developing and executing, tests, automation scripts and procedures, handle load and scale:
  - Ensure securely robust solutions (security context).
  - Manage all cross-cutting non-functional architectural concerns for applications.
  - Enforce non-functional and industry standards applicable to its delivery class.
  - Evaluate system architecture and make recommendations as required.
  - Adhere to the organisation’s prescribed development frameworks, patterns and practices.
- Design:
  - Being able to come up with a solution to a programming challenge.
  - Create automated and scalable solutions.
- Develop:
  - Work with developers and architects in developing components based on requirements.
  - Apply code and share impact of code changes with Business Analyst and team.
  - Develop reusable code and libraries for future use.
- Test:
  - Testing of code and developing automated testing scripts and procedures.
- Support:
  - Conduct investigations through troubleshooting and debugging to fix minor and major and escalated bugs across all environments.
  - Maintain and upgrade software.

On-time delivery and tracking.

Deliver on negotiated commitments:
- Ensure timely delivery of developed applications and systems.
- Ensure project deadlines are met according to contracted service level agreement (SLA).
- Ensure visibility and tracking of value delivered in accordance with SDLC.
- Liaise with software vendors and all IT departments.

System support and uptime.

Involvement in system support, monitoring, capacity planning.
Provide first and/or second level standby to the Development/QA/Production environment(s) for integration between internal systems and applications as well as that of external service provider where required:
- Perform standby and support users using the platform in a timely manner.
- React to system monitoring and alerting events in a timely manner.
- Perform capacity planning on infrastructure requirements.
- Conduct performance stability tests to improve system stability.
- Conduct performance analysis/ load tests to improve throughput.
- Recommend and implement improved methods.
- Maintain and modify existing applications and systems.

Support Developers.

Provide support to Developers with challenges.
Coach and guide Developers.
Share knowledge.
Perform code reviews.
Assist Developers with development work

Stakeholder Communication.

Engage with Product Owners, project sponsors, inter-team communications for scoping, progress and status.

Qualifications:
Grade 12 and IT / Development qualification or certification from an SA accredited institution or ideally a relevant Tertiary Education in IT or Computer Science.

Knowledge & Experience:
Minimum Experience:

6+ years of experience working on Salesforce platforms
Direct experience working on CRM projects for middle market and enterprise size companies
Working knowledge and experience with complex business systems integration as well as object-oriented design patterns and development

Software engineering skills with Force.com Platform (Apex, LWC, SOQL, Unit Testing)
Experience in core web technologies including HTML5, JavaScript .Net, Java, .net and jQuery
Demonstrated experience and knowledge of relational databases, data modelling, and ETL tools
Experience with web services (REST & SOAP, JSON & XML, etc.)
Experience with Agile development methodologies such as SCRUM

Ideal

Knowledge:

Salesforce certification “Salesforce Platform Developer I”
Financial Services systems environment
High-volume industry exposure
Systems architecture principles (IT technologies and software architecture)
Systems analysis and design
Agile systems development processes (CI/CD standards and agile delivery methods)
Software development (typed and scripting coding languages)
Designing and delivering scalable and resilient solutions
Standards and governance, and best practices to simplify standards and governance processes with adherence

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