Senior Salesforce Developer

About Us

We are Alpha – an award winning financial services firm listed on the London Stock Exchange. Recognised by the Financial Times as one of the fastest growing companies in Europe, we remain a team of just over 100, and have achieved this by placing people and culture at the heart of our business. With a high quality client base, we pride ourselves on not only providing the best service but also the best career opportunities. Circa 50% of Alpha’s team are shareholders and we remain committed to making new ones each year.

Now operating across multiple overseas jurisdictions, and servicing clients in over 40 countries, the opportunity for career growth and development is greater than ever before. We’re only just getting started too, so if you’re an ambitious individual who’s ready to make an impact, we’d like to hear from you.

The Opportunity

This role sees you joining a fast-paced and dynamic tech team, within a company that has serious ambitions for its technology and is about to embark on some of the most exciting projects in financial services. Our vision is to create a scalable, resilient and dynamic platform for high-value corporates and institutions, and by joining us right at the start of our journey you’ll be an integral part of the team from day one.

We want to work with people who share our ambitious mindset, with a focus on developing capabilities that amaze our customers and enable their businesses to succeed as well as our own. This is an exciting chance to have a significant impact within a fast-growing PLC business, but one that retains the opportunities and mentality of a start-up.

Position Summary

As a Salesforce Developer at Alpha FX you will interact with every part of the business to develop bespoke solutions for them. You will develop tools which will allow the business to process transactions in the region of billions of pounds for high-value corporates and institutions around the world.

If you are looking for a role which requires a stakeholder mindset combined with hands on development, this is the role for you. From day one you

will be given the opportunity to work on initiatives which are of strategic importance to our business. Developing inhouse solutions will provide you with the opportunity to see your products in the hands of end users every day. As we embark on a transition to Lightning, we are looking for fantastic developers to join us and drive this to completion.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Visualforce and Lightning applications using up-to date Salesforce technologies.
• Develop and apply advanced Salesforce functionality to solve business problems and create customised solutions on the Salesforce platform.
• Develop integration processes using Salesforce.com’s Web Services API.
• Provide technical input on best practices for integration with Salesforce, in-house systems, and third-party systems.
• Actively seek out opportunities to leverage Salesforce, driving productivity gains for a rapidly scaling sales team.
• Understand Salesforce.com data model - e.g. how and when to create custom objects, junction objects, and other model items.
• Continual evaluation of existing Salesforce security and architecture to ensure its manageability and sustainability.
• Engage with product managers and key stakeholders through the entire software development lifecycle, keeping them regularly updated on progress and ensuring all requirements are satisfied.

Competencies & Experience

• APEX, Visualforce, Lightning and other Salesforce.com technologies.
• Experience in migrating applications to the Lightning platform.
• Hands on experience working with relational databases.
• Experience constructing SOQL queries to interact with Salesforce database.
• Experience developing REST API integrations.
• Have an understanding of data structures and their application in Salesforce.
• Strong knowledge in Salesforce Administration including managing profiles, teams and security.
• Experience with building international CRM systems with localisation.
• Experience in writing documentation, both in code and user manuals.
• Hands-on experience working with JavaScript within Salesforce (on VF pages, Aura components and or LWC).
• You are a forward thinking and a team player.
• Promoter of industry best practices and framework.
• An analytical mind with great attention to detail.
• Critical thinker and problem-solver.
• Effective communicator.
• Driven self-starter, capable of working with minimum supervision.
• Open to new ideas and thrive on feedback.

What We Offer

• Best in market salary, with additional bi-annual bonus aligned to company performance
• Life-changing equity opportunities for team players that perform
• Award-winning office in the heart of Paddington, complete with a free bar, gym, personal trainer, and a barbershop / hair salon.
• Legendary annual ski trip
• Quarterly company celebrations
• Private healthcare for you and your family from day one
• Office equipped with state of the art gym which is free to use
• Up to 33 days holiday, depending on years of service
• Early finishes on a Friday