Salesforce Engineer

The Sage Group plc; Wokingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Pension plan: up to 8% matched

25 days annual leave

Comprehensive health coverage

Ongoing training & development

Job summary

The Sage Group plc is hiring a Salesforce Developer for the Product Engineering Team in Winnersh, Reading area, United Kingdom. This role is hybrid (3 days onsite) and involves hands-on Apex, SOQL, JavaScript development on the Salesforce platform within Sage People, a global HR SaaS product.

You’ll work with a cross-functional team, contribute to a product roadmap, and help evolve the platform with AI-driven capabilities.

Qualifications

• Hands-on development on Salesforce platform, not a config/admin role.
• Experience with Apex, SOQL and JavaScript.
• Proven OO programming experience (Java or C#).
• Experience delivering scalable solutions on Salesforce Lightning.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into robust solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work with the platform, delivering customer and people management functionality.
• Translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.
• Contribute to technical design, architecture discussions and system thinking.
• Collaborate with Salesforce Developers, Angular engineers, Testers, PMs and Architects; participate in Scrum/SAFe ceremonies and product releases.

Skills

Java

Salesforce Lightning

Apex

SOQL

JavaScript

OO programming

Tools

Git

Jira

IntelliJ

CI/CD

Job description

We're hiring Salesforce Developer - Product Engineering Team (ISV) in Winnersh (Reading area), UK Hybrid (3 days onsite), What you'll be doing As a Salesforce Developer, you will:

Responsibilities

• Work with the platform, delivering customer and people management functionality
• Translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions
• Contribute to technical design, architecture discussions and system thinking
• Collaborate closely with Salesforce Developers team, Angular frontend engineers, Testers, Product Managers and Architects, work in a modern environment using Git, Jira, IntelliJ, CI/CD pipelines, take part in Scrum / SAFe ceremonies, quarterly planning and product releases, contribute to a product roadmap that increasingly includes AI-driven capabilities

Work hands-on with: Apex, SOQL, JavaScript, Salesforce Lightning / Lightning Web Components (LWC) / VisualForce / APIs. Important: this role requires real, hands-on development on Salesforce - it is not a configuration or admin position.

Core skills

• Proven experience with object-oriented programming, e.g. Java or C#
• Experience developing with Salesforce Lightning
• Hands-on delivery of solutions on the platform
• Strong proficiency in Apex, SOQL and JavaScript
• Ability to manage and deliver complex business and technical requirements

Nice to have

• Experience with Git, Jira and IntelliJ, and CI/CD practices
• Exposure to Salesforce REST APIs
• Salesforce Developer Certification

We are open to

• Experienced Salesforce Developers, and/or
• Backend developers (Java / C#) looking to specialise in Salesforce, with strong development fundamentals and a desire to learn

Sage People is a global HR & people management SaaS product built on the Salesforce platform, serving customers worldwide. As an ISV, we build and evolve one single product, with a strong focus on code quality, scalability and long term architecture. Salesforce is the global CRM platform and a mature, enterprise-grade application ecosystem. It combines a strongly typed, object-oriented server-side language (Apex) with standards-based frontend development using Lightning Web Components. Much of our work involves custom Apex and LWC development, applying core software engineering principles such as OO design, automated testing, performance tuning, and CI/CD.

Team culture & environment

What really makes this role stand out is the team.

• A stable, close knit engineering group - many team members have worked together for 8+ years
• A friendly, supportive and human environment, where people genuinely enjoy working together
• Engineers, testers, architects and product managers collaborating daily as one product team
• A culture that values shared ownership, learning and constructive technical discussions
• Strong leadership momentum and investment, particularly around AI and Salesforce innovation
• A modern, welcoming office in Winnersh, with teams enjoying face to face collaboration as part of a hybrid model

You'll join a team where collaboration matters more than hierarchy, and where people stay because they like both the work and the people. Working at Sage means you're supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions. Our colleagues are the best of the best. It's why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock down barriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience their potential.

Learn more about working at Sage: Watch a video about our culture: v=qIoiCpZH-QE

We celebrate individuality and welcome you to join us if you embrace all backgrounds, identities, beliefs, and ways of working.

Learn more about DEI at Sage.

Benefits

• Competitive salary plus generous bonus scheme
• Pension plan: up to 8% matched + 2% top-up by Sage
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to 5 more
• 8 bank holidays
• 5 paid volunteer days per year via the Sage Foundation
• 50% income protection
• Holiday buy & selll
• Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
• Work Away scheme (up to 10 weeks per year)
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Hybrid working
• Healthy Mind app membership
• Access to financial, health and wellbeing memberships

Discover life at Sage: If you're looking for a Salesforce developer role with real technical depth and a genuinely great team culture, we'd love to hear from you.