Senior Salesforce Developer
Capitec Bank · Stellenbosch, Western Cape
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Start free — we apply for you →- We need a senior Salesforce developer who can take ownership of the platform that powers Funeral Cover, Life Cover and Credit Insurance for millions of South Africans – and help us build what comes next.
What you'll do here
- You'll work on a platform that manages the full insurance lifecycle – from quote to claim – at scale, for real clients who depend on it.
Specifically, you'll
- Lead Salesforce architectural decisions across our Insurance platform
- Build and extend capabilities for policy lifecycle management, claims processing and client relationship management
- Design and implement integrations across policy administration, claims intake, adjudication and payment processing
- Build and maintain complex Apex logic, Lightning Web Components and Salesforce Flows that drive our insurance operations
- Ensure our platform scales reliably as our insurance business grows – across Life Cover, Funeral Cover and Credit Insurance
- Mentor junior and intermediate developers on the team
- Drive development standards and engineering best practices within the Salesforce space
- Evaluate and introduce Salesforce capabilities that move our Insurance platform forward
Your tech stack
- Salesforce Financial Services Cloud – our insurance platform foundation
- Apex, LWC, Salesforce Flow – how we build and extend the platform
- REST/SOAP APIs, Platform Events, Change Data Capture – how we integrate
- Java – your back-end foundation, directly transferable here
- Salesforce DX & CLI – source-driven development and deployment pipelines
What you bring Experience
- 6+ years of software development experience, with meaningful Salesforce platform exposure
- Back-end development experience in Java or similar object-oriented languages, considered a strong foundation for Salesforce development
- A track record of designing and delivering complex Salesforce solutions end-to-end
- Experience working in regulated or financial services environments is a strong advantage
- The ability to explain technical decisions clearly – to engineers, architects and business stakeholders
- A genuine interest in growing the engineers around you
Education
- Minimum: Grade 12 National Certificate
- Preferred: A relevant tertiary qualification in information technology
Certifications
- Required: Salesforce Platform Developer I
- Preferred: Salesforce Platform Developer II, Salesforce Administrator, or Salesforce Financial Services Cloud accreditation
Knowledge
You can apply expert-level knowledge and develop others' understanding across:
- Apex programming – triggers, service classes, batch Apex, queueable Apex and scheduled Apex
- Lightning Web Components – component structure, data connectivity, cross-component communication and Lightning Design System
- Salesforce Flow – record-triggered flows, screen flows, scheduled flows and auto-launched flows
- SOQL and SOSL – efficient querying, governor limit management and multi-object data retrieval
- Insurance-specific data modelling – policies, claims, coverages, participants and financial transactions
- API integration – REST and SOAP services, Named Credentials, OAuth 2.0 and external system authentication
- Apex test class design – unit tests, integration tests and bulk operation tests with meaningful coverage
- IT systems development processes SDLC and version control