Salesforce Developer

Are you a Salesforce Developer who fancies a change from excessive hours and no work life balance? We may be just what you are looking for!

Role Description 

We are looking for a highly motivated Salesforce Developer to help us deliver brilliant tech solutions for those who need it the most! We help nonprofit and charity sector clients to amplify the impact they have on their communities all around the world!

You will work alongside our Solution Architects and Salesforce Technical Consultants to collaborate on specifications based on stakeholder requirements, validate the proposals and then deliver the solutions.

Who we are

Lightful is a B-Corp business, who believes those doing the greatest good, deserve the best technology. Our products and services are designed for charities and nonprofits to simplify their work and amplify their impact. We offer three services to charities and nonprofits; Lightful Products, Lightful Learning and Lightful Solutions. Each service is different but highly interconnected, designed for the different needs of the social and environmental-focused organisations we’re proud to serve and work with.

Since achieving B Corp status in 2020, we have created an impact out of the office too. We have planted 12,371 trees planted through our employee carbon offset programme, saved 295,497 litres of water, and offset 1,107 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide emissions through 28 global carbon reduction projects.

You can read more about our products and services as well as our purpose, mission and values on our website.

Lightful Solutions

Within Lightful Solutions, we make great ideas possible. Our solution design approach ensures flexibility and scalability. Our spirit of partnership means seeing good people and great causes achieving more impact through our technology. 

Our vision is to deliver innovation, insight and technology solutions that positively impact global challenges. Our mission is to unlock value, accelerate impact, drive innovation and define the standards for our sector - beyond profit.

You will...

• Work on projects to develop new user features, update and constantly refining existing feature sets 
• Build reusable code, components and libraries for future use
• Have ownership of your allocated tickets in sprints including clarification, development, developer review and deployment within sprint timelines
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders to ensure client work is delivered on time
• Collaborate with the Salesforce Technical Consultants to validate business requirements and any considerations (security, scalability, limits)
• Develop Apex (classes and triggers), Lightning Components, and Visualforce to extend Salesforce in order to support business requirements
• Work on Application development, including basic Visualforce pages/Lightning pages, Lightning Web Components
• Assist with each release cycle to implement and deploy new/updates to existing applications and code
• Take ownership of release cycles to implement and deploy new/updates to existing applications and code 
• Integrate and maintain business applications to Salesforce, such as DocuSign, Conga, Survey Gizmo, Mailchimp etc..

We'd love to hear from you if you can tick off a good number of the following:

• 3+ years of working in Salesforce development
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, specifically GIT
• Experience in Salesforce configuration, maintenance and installation of 3rd party apps
• Experience participating in Agile Development Life Cycle methodologies (JIRA ticket system) 
• Experience of peer testing, debugging and providing feedback to other members of the dev team
• Experience in custom development to integrate Salesforce.com with other external systems
• A strong understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and Accessibility principles and how to manage them 
• Proficient understanding of Apex code, Lightning Web Components, Javascript and Visualforce
• Platform Developer 2 certification level or equivalent experience
• A number of Salesforce certs

It would be even better if you have:

• Experience in working with Salesforce Communities, NPSP and HEDA packages and non profit processes 
• Knowledge of Angular and web markup, including HTML5, CSS 

Benefits

You will be a part of our exciting culture that fosters personal growth and development. As we expand, you will be given the opportunity to thrive in a close-knit team environment.

• Highly competitive salary 
• Stock options - every team member shares in the success of Lightful!
• 27 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Your birthday off (paid) plus day off to move house (paid)
• Simply Health cash back plan
• Lightful Pension provided by Legal & General 
• Refer a friend scheme
• Charitable Payroll Giving
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free access to Asana Rebel (yoga) and Headspace apps
• Access to Perkbox (retail discounts and much more)
• Tax free contribution to additional home-working costs
• Work from anywhere (90 day max from abroad)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Workplace Nursery (Salary sacrifice scheme providing NI/Tax savings on nursery fees)
• Personal development programme
• Thorough onboarding experience, supported by a buddy to support your integration to the team
• Remote working with access to co-working spaces for those who miss human interactions
• Varied and excellent opportunities for skills/career progression
• Be part of a business that has an impact all over the world!

Need a flexible way of working?

We’re open to talking about whatever it is you need to do your best work. Part-time hours, compressed hours or simply some flexibility to work full-time around existing commitments and other priorities. We can’t guarantee it will always work, but let’s talk about it to see if it can!

Equal opportunities statement

A diverse range of opinions and perspectives is core to Lightful’s open culture and ongoing success. As an equal opportunity employer, all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

Additional Requirements

Eligible to work in the U.K. without the need of visa support/sponsorship.