Sr Salesforce Platform Developer

Position Overview

At Exact Sciences, we are cancer fighters. We are united by our mission to change lives by providing earlier, smarter answers. Through advances in cancer detection and treatment guidance, we will help eradicate the disease and the suffering it causes.

The Senior Platform Developer is responsible for delivering high-quality, secure, and scalable solutions and ensuring efficient, well-governed release processes for the International Salesforce platform at Exact Sciences. The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining business-critical capabilities while supporting smooth and reliable deployments across development, test, and production environments.

The holder of this role, by working closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Technical Leads, and cross-functional teams, will also contribute to the delivery of new features, enhancements, and fixes on time and with minimal risk, while maintaining platform stability, performance, and compliance.

This role will be able to resolve most issues and problems effectively with minimal oversight, communicate effectively with business stakeholders and mentor junior team members.  This role will routinely make key decisions for the team, be accountable for application quality, and be highly productive.

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, technical design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
• Deliver medium to high complexity Salesforce functionality including business logic implementation, asynchronous processing, custom frameworks, integration via REST/SOAP APIs and Platform Events, and complex Apex classes, triggers, workflows, validation rules, formulas, and process automation.
• Deliver Salesforce frontend functionality including Lightning Web Components, Visualforce, user interface customization, and responsive design.
• Contribute to the development of engineering standards, best practices, and reusable components.
• Mentor junior engineers and encourage knowledge sharing within the team.
• Coordinate with stakeholders, peers, and decision-makers to align release schedules, manage dependencies, and ensure smooth deployment from development through staging to production.
• Implement and manage scalable release processes including continuous delivery, optimization, monitoring, and support for the end-to-end release lifecycle.
• Contribute to the definition and management of environment strategies and data management such as backups, seeding, and anonymization.
• Ensure security and compliance across development and release activities, including the implementation of automated quality and security gates.
• Monitor and analyze Salesforce events and system activity using Event Monitoring to ensure performance, security, and compliance.
• Identify release risks, troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement rollback, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Recommend and implement improvements in processes, tooling, and automation to enhance development and release efficiency.
• Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in Salesforce development and release engineering and apply relevant innovations to the platform.
• Manage and execute hotfix deployments to address urgent production issues with minimal disruption.
• Ability to work nights and/or weekends, as needed.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Fluency in English (C1 or above per CEFR framework) with the ability to communicate on technical topics relating to the software development process.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or other field related to the essential duties of the position; or high school degree/ 4th level vocational qualification in IT and 4 years of relevant experience related to the essential duties of the position in lieu of Bachelor’s degree.
• 6+ years of software development experience with building cloud-based applications using Salesforce and other cloud technologies.
• 4+ years of proficiency in Saleforce.com development, covering both backend and frontend functionality, using Apex Triggers, Apex Controllers, Visual Force Page / Lightning, SOQL & SOSL, Schedule, and Batch & Queueable jobs.
• 3+ years of experience managing DevOps in a software engineering role, including supporting Salesforce and MuleSoft platforms.
• 3+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, WSDL, XML, XQuery, XSD, SOAP, REST, and WSDL.
• Proficiency with GitLab workflows and SFDX CLI.
• Good knowledge of AWS infrastructure and services.
• Authorization to work in Poland without visa sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce certifications: Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II and/or Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Designer.
• Experience in building and maintaining processes in Informatica Cloud.
• Experience in building Salesforce and MuleSoft CI/CD pipelines from scratch.
• Experience with Salesforce and MuleSoft platform production deployments in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Practical knowledge of Confluent Kafka.
• Practical knowledge of Python and/or Bash.
• Practical knowledge of databases and SQL.
• Experience in molecular biology, genomics, translational science, and/or personalized medicine.
• Superior technical communication skills.
• Knowledge of other European languages (French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish) and/or Japanese.