Lead Salesforce Developer

Insignis Asset Management Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

5% Pension contributions

Private medical insurance

Health cash Plan

Enhanced Parental Leave

Cycle to Work Scheme

Monthly team lunches

Company socials

Job summary

Insignis Asset Management Limited is seeking a Lead Salesforce Developer to own the Salesforce platform, architect and implement solutions, and lead ongoing development. You will drive integrations with core systems via event-driven patterns and maintain high standards in code quality and security.

The role combines hands-on development with leadership, mentoring teammates, and setting technical direction in a hybrid London-based team.

Qualifications

• 6+ years Salesforce development experience, with 2+ years in lead/senior capacity.
• Expert-level Apex: triggers, asynchronous processing, bulkification, test strategy beyond coverage.
• Strong experience integrating Salesforce with external systems using event-driven patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development and delivery of Salesforce solutions with hands-on Apex work.
• Own integration between Salesforce and operational systems using Platform Events and Kafka.
• Define and enforce engineering standards, code review, testing, CI/CD, deployment practices, and release governance.
• Mentor and develop Salesforce team members to raise engineering standards.
• Translate business requirements into maintainable platform solutions with product/operations teams.
• Ensure compliance with UK GDPR, FCA requirements, access controls and data classification.
• Manage Salesforce technical debt and environment health; lifecycle contributions for releases.

Skills

Apex expertise

Platform Events

Change Data Capture

Kafka integration

Lightning Web Components

CI/CD practices

Mentoring/leadership

Security/UK GDPR

Tools

SFDX

DevOpsCenter

Kafka

Job description

We are a fast-growing FinTech company looking for a talented and enthusiastic engineer to join our team. We are expanding, making this a perfect position if you would like to have a significant impact on our company’s growth and develop your role and career as the business evolves. You will join a team where your ideas will be welcomed and valued.

We are UK FCA-regulated providing deposit aggregation and cash management services. Salesforce sits at the heart of our operational estate, and we are looking for a Lead Salesforce Developer to take technical ownership of the platform and lead its ongoing development.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will design and build on the Salesforce platform yourself, set the technical direction and standards for the Salesforce team, and own the integration between Salesforce and our core operational systems — an event-driven architecture built on Kafka, with APIs.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead the design,developmentand delivery of solutions on the Salesforce platform, with deep hands-on Apex development
• Own the integration architecture between Salesforce and operational systems, using Platform Events, Change DataCaptureand our event streaming backbone (Kafka)
• Define and enforce engineering standards for the Salesforce team: code review, testing, CI/CD, deployment practices (source-driven development with SFDX/DevOpsCenteror equivalent), and release governance
• Mentor and develop other Salesforce team members, raising the overall engineering standard of the team
• Work with product,operationsand engineering leadership to translate business requirements into well-designed, maintainable platform solutions
• Ensure solutions meet our security, dataprotectionand regulatory obligations (UK GDPR, FCA requirements), includingappropriate accesscontrols, audittrailsand data classification
• Manage Salesforce technical debt deliberately: governor limits, org health, unused metadata, and the config-vs-code trade-off
• Contribute to platform lifecycle activities: release readiness for Salesforce seasonal releases, sandbox strategy, and environment management

Requirements

• 6+ years of Salesforce development experience, with at least 2 years in a lead or senior capacity
• Expert-level Apex: triggers (and trigger frameworks), asynchronous processing (Queueable, Batch, Platform Events),bulkification, and test strategy beyond coverage percentages
• Strong experience integrating Salesforce with external operational systems using event-driven patterns — Platform Events, Change Data Capture, and consuming/publishing to external event streams (e.g. Kafka)
• Solid understanding of Salesforce integration options and their trade-offs: REST/SOAP callouts, External Services, streaming API, middleware vs point-to-point
• Experience with Lightning Web Components and modern Salesforce front-end development
• Experience designing for idempotency, ordering and failure handling in asynchronous integrations
• Track recordof mentoring developers and leading technical decision-making in a team
• 25 days holiday (exc. Bank holidays)
• 5% Pension contributions
• Private medical insurance with Vitality
• Health cash Plan offering contributions to dental, optical and much more
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Monthly team lunches, quarterly company socials

Working Pattern

• Hybrid working pattern in London office, 3 days in the office, 2 days remote.