Senior Salesforce Developer

• We need a senior Salesforce developer who can take ownership of the platform that powers Funeral Cover, Life Cover and Credit Insurance for millions of South Africans – and help us build what comes next.

What you'll do here

• You'll work on a platform that manages the full insurance lifecycle – from quote to claim – at scale, for real clients who depend on it.

Specifically, you'll:

• Lead Salesforce architectural decisions across our Insurance platform
• Build and extend capabilities for policy lifecycle management, claims processing and client relationship management
• Design and implement integrations across policy administration, claims intake, adjudication and payment processing
• Build and maintain complex Apex logic, Lightning Web Components and Salesforce Flows that drive our insurance operations
• Ensure our platform scales reliably as our insurance business grows – across Life Cover, Funeral Cover and Credit Insurance
• Mentor junior and intermediate developers on the team
• Drive development standards and engineering best practices within the Salesforce space
• Evaluate and introduce Salesforce capabilities that move our Insurance platform forward

Your tech stack

• Salesforce Financial Services Cloud – our insurance platform foundation
• Apex, LWC, Salesforce Flow – how we build and extend the platform
• REST/SOAP APIs, Platform Events, Change Data Capture – how we integrate
• Java – your back-end foundation, directly transferable here
• Salesforce DX & CLI – source-driven development and deployment pipelines

What you bring
Experience

• 6+ years of software development experience, with meaningful Salesforce platform exposure
• Back-end development experience in Java or similar object-oriented languages, considered a strong foundation for Salesforce development
• A track record of designing and delivering complex Salesforce solutions end-to-end
• Experience working in regulated or financial services environments is a strong advantage
• The ability to explain technical decisions clearly – to engineers, architects and business stakeholders
• A genuine interest in growing the engineers around you

Education

• Minimum: Grade 12 National Certificate
• Preferred: A relevant tertiary qualification in information technology

Certifications

• Required: Salesforce Platform Developer I
• Preferred: Salesforce Platform Developer II, Salesforce Administrator, or Salesforce Financial Services Cloud accreditation

Knowledge

You can apply expert-level knowledge and develop others' understanding across:

• Apex programming – triggers, service classes, batch Apex, queueable Apex and scheduled Apex
• Lightning Web Components – component structure, data connectivity, cross-component communication and Lightning Design System
• Salesforce Flow – record-triggered flows, screen flows, scheduled flows and auto-launched flows
• SOQL and SOSL – efficient querying, governor limit management and multi-object data retrieval
• Insurance-specific data modelling – policies, claims, coverages, participants and financial transactions
• API integration – REST and SOAP services, Named Credentials, OAuth 2.0 and external system authentication
• Apex test class design – unit tests, integration tests and bulk operation tests with meaningful coverage
• IT systems development processes (SDLC) and version control