Senior Salesforce Developer (Freelance)
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Working Model: Hybrid 1- 2 days per week onsite
Contract Type: Freelance / Contractor
Duration: Initial 6 Months (Extension Likely)
Rate: Competitive Market Rate
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Salesforce Developer to join a major digital transformation programme for a leading organisation based in Amsterdam.
This role is ideal for a highly skilled Salesforce professional who has delivered complex enterprise-scale solutions across multiple Salesforce clouds and has a strong background in modern development practices, CI/CD, DevOps, and release management.
You will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimising Salesforce solutions while helping to drive platform best practices, governance, quality, and scalable delivery processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement complex Salesforce solutions across multiple business domains.
- Collaborate closely with architects, product owners, business stakeholders, and delivery teams.
- Develop custom functionality using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Visualforce, and Salesforce APIs.
- Lead technical design discussions and contribute to architectural decision-making.
- Implement scalable, secure, and maintainable Salesforce solutions following best practices.
- Manage integrations between Salesforce and external enterprise applications.
- Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
- Drive release management activities across multiple environments.
- Perform code reviews and mentor junior developers.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex platform and integration issues.
- Ensure compliance with platform governance, security, and performance standards.
Required Experience
- Salesforce Platform
- 7+ years of Salesforce development experience.
- Strong experience across core Salesforce clouds, including:
- Sales Cloud
- Service Cloud
- Experience Cloud
- Deep understanding of the Salesforce platform, data model, security model, and governor limits.
- Extensive experience with:
- Apex Development
- Lightning Web Components (LWC)
- SOQL and SOSL
- Salesforce APIs
- Platform Events
- Flows and Automation
- DevOps & Release Management
- Proven experience implementing and managing Salesforce CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of modern Salesforce DevOps practices.
- Experience with:
- Git
- GitHub / GitLab / Azure DevOps
- Salesforce DX (SFDX)
- Automated testing frameworks
- Deployment automation
- Branching strategies
- Experience managing complex multi-environment release cycles.
- Knowledge of change management and deployment governance practices.
- Integration Experience
- Strong API development and integration experience.
- Experience integrating Salesforce with enterprise platforms and third-party applications.