Principal Salesforce Engineer (contract)

About this role

WE’RE ON A MISSION TO BACK THE UK’S SMALL BUSINESSES LIKE NO ONE ELSE 🚀 Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we’re here to help them win. We’ve built a platform that uses clever data to get them the funding they need in minutes, not weeks. At Funding Circle, we have the restless energy of a fintech start-up with the stability of a public company. It’s a unique mix that gives Circlers the autonomy to take ownership and the scale to make an impact that truly counts.

We’re a high-performing team that chooses to lift each other up. We challenge, we champion, and we have each other’s backs - because we know that when we stand together, we move faster and build better. The impact is real: Last year alone, the businesses on our platform generated £7.2bn for the UK economy 📈 Come and join a mission that matters! [Read our Impact Report https://www.fundingcircle.com/uk/impact] | [See our Trustpilot https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/fundingcircle.com] THE ROLE ⚡ As a Consultant Principal Salesforce Engineer, you'll: - Work on discovery with Salesforce teams at Funding Circle to identify challenges within the existing Salesforce Org and SDLC - Develop an understanding of the technical roadmap for Salesforce and help to shape it - Advise on existing Salesforce integration patterns and Salesforce SDLC, providing suggestions of how they could be improved - Identify and implement opportunities to invest in Agentic AI and utilise Agentforce to deliver transformational change - Examine some of the larger architectural challenges and advise on approaches to solve them iteratively WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR 🌱 - Several years experience as a Salesforce Developer with Sales and Service Cloud including both Apex and LWCs.

Preferably with Salesforce Certification - Experience refactoring/redesigning legacy Salesforce orgs in an iterative way - Knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure, preferably AWS - A good understanding of Software Architecture and patterns and an understanding of how to apply that knowledge to Salesforce. Experience of Event Driven architectures would be a bonus - Experience with Salesforce systems that are heavily integrated to other systems in real-time - An understanding of development tooling including CI/CD, Git, and approaches to packaging Please note this is a contract role, outside IR35, requiring an immediate or short notice start.