Senior Salesforce Tech Lead & Architect-in-Progress

Blue5Green, Inc.

Princeton (NJ)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

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Job summary

Blue5Green, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Salesforce Engineer in New Jersey aiming toward Architect-level responsibilities.

You will own the technical delivery for Salesforce workstreams, shaping design decisions, mentoring developers, and staying deeply hands-on with Apex, LWC, integrations, automation, and platform engineering. You will collaborate with Solution Architects, lead code reviews, ensure bulk-safe, secure, and scalable solutions, and contribute to CI/CD, testing, and deployment

Qualifications

Extensive hands-on expertise in Apex, LWC, Flows, SOQL/SOSL, Salesforce security, data modeling, and platform architecture.
Experience with integrations using REST/SOAP, middleware, Platform Events, and CDC.
Deep understanding of governor limits, bulkification, performance, scalability, and enterprise design patterns.
Proven ability to lead a development team while contributing code.
Experience with Salesforce DX, Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment processes.

Responsibilities

Own the technical delivery of Salesforce features and workstreams from solution design through deployment and production support.
Translate functional requirements into scalable, secure, maintainable Salesforce technical solutions.
Design and implement complex solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows, SOQL/SOSL, platform events, and Salesforce configuration.
Remain hands-on in development and personally deliver complex or high-risk technical components.
Define technical approaches, design patterns, data models, integration patterns, error-handling strategies, and non-functional requirements.
Partner with Salesforce Solution/Technical Architects and actively develop the skills and experience required for an Architect role.
Lead technical design reviews, code reviews, solution walkthroughs, and engineering discussions.
Mentor developers, raise engineering standards, and provide technical guidance on complex issues.
Design and support integrations using REST/SOAP APIs, middleware, Platform Events, CDC, and other appropriate Salesforce patterns.
Ensure solutions are bulk-safe, governor-limit compliant, secure, performant, and scalable.
Support CI/CD, Salesforce DX, Git-based development, automated testing, deployment readiness, and environment consistency.
Troubleshoot complex production issues and lead root-cause analysis and remediation.
Work closely with Business Analysts, QA, DevOps, Product Owners, and Project Managers to ensure technical delivery aligns with business commitments.
Communicate technical concepts, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Contribute to estimation, sprint planning, release planning, technical documentation, and continuous engineering improvement.