Salesforce Developer / Lead

Leapfrog is on a mission to be a role model technology company. Since 2010, we have relentlessly worked on crafting better digital products with our team of superior engineers. We’re a full-stack company specializing in SaaS products and have served over 100 clients with our mastery of emerging technologies.

We’re thinkers and doers, creatives and coders, makers and builders— but most importantly, we are trusted partners with world-class engineers. Hundreds of companies in Boston, Seattle, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco choose us to gain speed, agility, quality, and stability, giving them an edge over their competitors.

We are seeking a highly skilled Salesforce Developer to enhance our customer engagement capabilities by upgrading our Legacy Chat to Enhanced Chat. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Salesforce Service Cloud and Sales Cloud, coupled with a strong understanding of Omni-Channel and Live Agent functionalities.

This role requires proven expertise in Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), JavaScript, HTML, SOQL, and SOSL, with the ability to design and implement scalable, high-quality Salesforce solutions that drive customer success.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Focus on delivering high-quality, functional solutions on the Salesforce.com platform using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOAP, and REST APIs.
• Lead the migration from Legacy Chat to Enhanced Chat, ensuring a seamless transition for users and customers within Service Cloud and Sales Cloud.
• Design and implement Omni-Channel and Omni-Flow configurations to optimize customer service workflows and routing.
• Perform deployment, testing, and documentation of Salesforce features, enhancements, and integrations.
• Collaborate closely with product owners, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to define, clarify, and implement both functional and non-functional requirements for new and existing backlog items.
• Train and support end-users on implemented Salesforce features and planned solutions to ensure adoption and efficiency.
• Investigate, scope, and plan the implementation of assigned epics and backlog items, leveraging deep Salesforce platform expertise to model, document, and justify scalable, maintainable solutions.

Desired Outcomes

• Lead the migration from Legacy Chat to Enhanced Chat within Service Cloud and Sales Cloud, ensuring a seamless, scalable, and user-friendly transition for both customers and internal teams.
• Design, build, and deploy Enhanced Chat configurations, including Omni-Channel and Omni-Flow setups, to optimize response times, routing efficiency, and overall customer engagement.
• Execute deployment, testing, and documentation of Salesforce features, enhancements, and integrations, maintaining high standards of quality, performance, and compliance with best practices.

About you

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience with coding on the Salesforce Platform using Apex, Visualforce, Lightning / Aura Components, Javascript, HTML, REST/SOAP API etc.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience creating Flows
• Minimum 2 years of experience with Omnichannel and Live Agent Chat
• Minimum 2 years of experience with Sales, Service Cloud

Required Education / Certificates / Experience

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent preferably in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering
• Salesforce Platform Developer I certification

Your Impact:

•                 Interact clearly with clients and the on-shore and off-shore project teams

•                 Regular involvement in thought leadership Best Practices development

•                 Facilitate end to end project design & development while working closely with global client

Your Skills & Experience:

•                 4 to 14 years of development experience in SFDC

•                 Excellent hands-on experience in Salesforce application development including VF, Apex Triggers, Asynchronous Apex

•                 Deep knowledge of Lightning framework

•                 Expertise in Business Requirement gathering, Analysis & conceptualizing high-level architectural framework & design

•                 Experience working with Sales or Service cloud, Community Cloud, Marketing Cloud

•                 Conceptualize end to end integration projects & knowledge of authentication mechanism

•                 Experience in REST & SOAP APIs, knowledge of Governor limits involved during Integration

•                 Working knowledge on continuous integration, working with repositories (e.g. Git)

•                 Should have experience to design the data flow and work with any ETL or dataloader

•                 Excellent experience in designing and architecting large scale applications

•                 Thorough understanding of Solution architecting & Estimation process

•                 Excellent consulting skills, oral and written communication, presentation, and analytical skills 

Set Yourself Apart With:

•                 Salesforce Certifications

•                 Knowledge of Heroku, Angular.js and Salesforce Einstein, Salesforce CPQ, CloudCraze B2B

•                 Incident and problem management skills

•                 Ability to provide necessary coaching to bring juniors up to speed on the technology

•                 Exceptional written skill for solution documentation creation for both technical and non-technical material

•                 Background in force.com platform and deployment experience in an outsourced service environment

•                 Articulation skills & Good team player

•                 Self-starter and self-learner with keen interest to grow

•                 Process orientation and the ability to define and setup processes

•                 Mentoring team members

Benefits of Working Here:

•                 Gender Neutral Policy

•                 18 paid holidays throughout the year for NCR/BLR (22 For Mumbai)

•                 Generous parental leave and new parent transition program

•                 Flexible work arrangements

•                 Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well being  

Opportunity Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic engineer with experience building Salesforce AppExchange apps to lead the development of Salesforce connectors for our marketing technology products.

What would you do?

·      Collaborate with stakeholders in establishing application requirements, determining features, creating customer-friendly solutions, and determining support needs and performance requirements. 

·      Plan, design, develop, test, and deploy software to satisfy these requirements. 

·      Work according to the agile programming application development methodology adhered to including test-first, iterative development, and continuous re-prioritization.  

·      Support the maintenance of our hosted technology solutions. 

·      Work with other team members in accomplishing group objectives and participating in code reviews. 

·      Ensure timely and robust implementation of the company’s development plans.

·      Ensure that all relevant parties are kept up to date on progress of projects and give feedback on an ongoing basis. 

·      Contribute to the review, selection, and adoption of proprietary tools and technologies. 

·      Use specialist knowledge and experience of information technology to provide technical advice and vision.

Technical Skills

The following skills are needed for this role.

Experience

·      3+ years’ experience in web application design and development 

·      Bachelor’s Degree in relevant discipline or equivalent experience 

Primary Skills

·      Strong background in Java development

·      Experience working with databases and/or CRM systems. 

·      Experience with, or willingness to learn the Salesforce platform

Secondary Skills (nice to have)

·      Experience with Salesforce APEX, VisualForce, SOQL, etc. 

·      Experience building and maintaining Salesforce AppExchange apps. 

·      AWS ecosystem and tools, developing for serverless environments. 

·      Front-end expertise: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. 

·      Other languages such as JavaScript, Typescript, C#, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc. are all valuable. 

Soft Skills

·      Thrives collaborating in a team environment with a diverse range of people.

·      Passionate about delivering an amazing customer experience.

·      Able to have a change of mind, and able to change the minds of others.

·      Writes clearly and concisely.

·      Capable of working without a company office, with a fully remote team.

Growth Skills

·      Possesses a good work ethic; a self-starter with a desire to grow.

·      Always looking for better ways to get the job done.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Possess complete understanding of individual project or modules within a larger project.
• Guide the software engineers in good programming discipline.
• Multi-task/work on several projects effectively and deliver within timeline.
• Exhibit excellent coding skills, adhering to standards, with minimal defects.
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system.
• Understand low level designs and adhere to architecture decisions.
• Understand high level designs and participate in architectural discussions.
• Work independently and contribute to the overall delivery.
• Ability to interface 1-1 with the customer. Articulate the work done.
• Implement technical solutions that are proposed by Leads or Tech Specialist to solve real time business problem.
• Exposure to Full stack development or frameworks depending on technology stack.
• Exhibit strong full stack or appropriate framework and platform knowledge and propose solutions to customers.
• Participate and contribute to technical discussions / architecture proposals.
• Work on POCs and ability to present technical solutions.
• Come up with alternative solutions to effectively solve customer problems.
• Certified developers either internally or externally in their area of expertise.
• Takes interest in mentoring juniors and software engineers.

Skills required:

Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Aura, Objects & Fields Set up, Process builder, Workflow rules, Validation rules, Formula Fields, LWC, Flows and Basic Integration experience, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Deployment using Change Set, Using tools like VS code, developer Console, Workbench and Dataloader

Nice to have:

Advanced and complex Integrations, Apex Design patterns

Certifications:

Good to have: PD1 (Platform Developer 1), PD2 (Platform Developer 2) and App Builder

Striim (pronounced “stream” with two i’s for integration and intelligence) was founded in 2012 with a simple goal of helping companies make data useful the instant it’s born.

Striim’s enterprise-grade, streaming integration with intelligence platform makes it easy to build continuous, streaming data pipelines – including change data capture (CDC) – to power real-time cloud integration, log correlation, edge processing, and streaming analytics.

Strong Core Java / C++ experience

·       Excellent understanding of Logical ,Object-oriented design patterns, algorithms and data structures.

·       Sound knowledge of application access methods including authentication mechanisms, API quota limits, as well as different endpoint REST, Java etc

·       Strong exp in databases - not just a SQL Programmer but with knowledge of DB internals

·       Sound knowledge of Cloud database available as service is plus (RDS, CloudSQL, Google BigQuery, Snowflake )

·       Experience working in any cloud environment and microservices based architecture utilizing GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CircleCI, Azure or similar technologies

·       Experience in Application verticals such as ERP, CRM, Sales with applications such as Salesforce, Workday, SAP  < Not Mandatory - added advantage >

·       Experience in building distributed systems  < Not Mandatory - added advantage >

·       Expertise on Data warehouse < Not Mandatory - added advantage >

·       Exp in developing & delivering product as SaaS i< Not Mandatory - added advantage 

• Bachelors/master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in developing web-based, E-Commerce applications on Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC).
• Object oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Experience in working with ISML, Pipelines, Pipelets, JS-Controllers, Digital Scripts, 
• B2C Commerce API.
• Knowledge on SGJC is must and SFRA is an added advantage.
• Experience in working with Forms, Service and Job / Integration frameworks. 
• Experience in working with REST and SOAP webservices.
• Experience in integrating with third party LINK cartridges like Payment, Tax, Analytics, Ratings & Reviews etc. along with developing custom cartridges.
• Good understanding on SFCC Business Manager Configurations.
• SFCC Developer certification is an added advantage.
• Knowledge on build and deployment.
• Knowledge on Source Control Management System like GitHub/BitBucket.

• Flexible and proactive/self-motivated working style with strong personal ownership of problem resolution 
• Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently. 
• Should be a problem solver with good analytical and critical thinking.
• Ability to Work on the priorities under pressure.
• Good communicator (written and verbal, formal and informal).
• Should be able to finish the work with minimum supervision.
• Experience: Minimum 2 Yrs. of relevant experience.