Salesforce Tech Lead

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Salesforce Tech Lead with 5-10 years of hands-on Salesforce development experience, including at least one year of Litify experience. The ideal candidate will lead Salesforce development, customization, and integrations, ensuring scalable and high-performing solutions. This role requires expertise in Apex, Lightning, Visualforce, and Salesforce best practices, along with team leadership and project execution capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Technical Leadership & Solution Design

• Lead Salesforce technical implementations, ensuring best practices and high performance
• Design and develop scalable and secure Salesforce solutions, including Litify customizations.
• Provide architectural guidance on Salesforce platform capabilities, integrations, and data modeling.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, solution architects, and developers to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, security best practices, and release management guidelines.

2. Development & Customization

• Develop and enhance Apex classes, triggers, Lightning components, and Visualforce pages.
• Implement Salesforce integrations
• Optimize SOQL queries, data models, and platform performance.
• Conduct code reviews, enforce CI/CD pipelines, and deploy changes using Salesforce DevOps tools.
• Write high-quality code with test coverage that accounts for both positive and negative test cases.

3. Litify & Legal Industry Customizations

• Implement Litify-based solutions for legal operations and case management.
• Customize Litify objects, workflows, and automation to align with business requirements.
• Ensure compliance with legal industry standards and best practices in Salesforce configurations.
• Configure Litify ELM and demonstrate the ability to independently problem-solve and research solutions.

4. Team Management & Collaboration

• Mentor and guide junior developers, ensuring best practices and technical excellence.
• Work closely with project managers, business analysts, and QA teams to ensure smooth project execution.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, providing technical input and ensuring timely delivery.
• Collaborate with the rest of the team in meetings, contributing ideas to help better the codebase, processes, and overall product.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Experience & Technical Expertise:

• 5-10 years of hands-on development experience.
• 1+ years of Litify experience.
• Strong expertise in Salesforce integrations, REST/SOAP APIs, and middleware solutions.
• Experience with Salesforce data modeling, security, and sharing rules.
• Hands-on experience with Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components (LWC), and SOQL.
• Working knowledge of Salesforce proprietary languages, including Apex, Aura Components, and Lightning Web Components, or comparable experience with client-side development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, Knockout, etc.).
• Knowledge of Salesforce DevOps (Gearset, Copado, Jenkins, Git, etc.).
• Understanding of the application of the Salesforce platform to the Legal Industry.

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Salesforce Certifications such as Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I & II, Salesforce Application Architect, or Litify Certification (preferred).

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience in Agile/SCRUM and TDD development methodologies.
• Legal domain experience.
• Experience developing managed packages on the Salesforce Platform as part of the ISV Partner Program.