Salesforce Developer (Contract)

Exeter

Landmark Information Group is a portfolio of leading property-related data and spatial technology businesses at the forefront of innovation and thought leadership. It delivers award-winning solutions to estate agency, conveyancing, surveying, lender valuations, environmental consultancy, and Governments. Landmark Solutions as a business unit within Landmark Information Group offers a diverse set of services cantered around Managed Service provisions and Geospatial Technologies, including building bespoke web applications, providing integrated Geospatial services, and data services to our clients.

As the UK’s largest custodian of land, property and environmental data, using a combination of AI, machine learning, GIS and Application development, our domain experts provide marketing leading and trusted interpretation and support to our many clients. Our data, backed by technology innovation and entrepreneurialism, make Landmark uniquely placed to lead the next wave of digital transformation in the markets we are passionate about.

What’s it like to work for Landmark?



We Also Offer

We hire ambitious and passionate talent into our business and are proud of the steps we take to maximise potential in our employees, nurturing and supporting their professional and personal development. We all know money makes the world go around, but at Landmark we understand that financial rewards also mean more than cash. We believe that in order for our employees to flourish, it’s important to strike a healthy work/life balance. We provide modern, open-plan and light working environments.

• 25 days’ holiday, with optional 5 days unpaid leave per year
• Free fruit, biscuits, tea and coffee
• Annual lifestyle allowance of £300 to put towards an activity of your choice
• Cycle to Work and Gym Flex scheme
• Focus on training and career progression
• Competitive salary
  
  

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

At Landmark development sits at the core of what we do. We are in the middle of a number of mission critical and high-profile projects that will give you the opportunity to work on some exciting, bleeding edge tech, all hosted in the Azure cloud which we are proud to call our home.

We are looking for a Salesforce Developer who will play a key role in the design and implementation of Landmarks business facing applications. You’ll work closely with our product teams to fully understand our users. We value the development and nurturing of our junior engineers and the senior developer takes a central role as the leader in their pod. Leave your mark on our engineering culture with your technical leadership, whilst continuing to keep growing yourself. You should have a desire to improve your knowledge and understanding of both our tools and technologies and seek opportunities to learn from others and assist the team in continuous improvement.

Some of the key responsibilities for the right Salesforce Developer include:

• Implementation, configuration and testing of modules / components that comprise the application. Includes:
  
  • Module & sub-module level design and implementation
  • Creation of automated tests at unit and integration level
  • Following good development practice and supporting the senior developer in implementing continuous improvement initiatives as and when required.
  • To provide estimates of increasing confidence and ensuring these estimates are met.
  • Assisting with regression testing when required.

• Demonstrating a positive work ethic and willingness to work beyond their own sphere of expertise.
• Assisting with the creation and review of technical specifications, design and analysis documentation of modules that comprise a Landmark Group application or product.
• To thoroughly test their own code at unit and module level with the aim of exceeding the quality level expected, including implementation of repeatable test automation modules where required.
• Supporting the project management and analysis functions within the team providing detailed technical information where required.
• Monitoring their individual tasks and providing appropriate feedback to the project manager on progress.
• Assisting with the creation of best effort estimates of the complexity and amount of work involved in aspects of projects where the developer is knowledgeable.
• Playing a key role in ensuring the team delivers on commitments it has made.
• Taking an active part in project meetings, offering constructive and honest feedback of positive and negative aspects of the project.
• Taking an active part in the investigation and resolution of defects, as well as assisting with enhancing the coverage of test activities to reduce future defects.
• Taking an active part in peer reviews. Volunteering work to be reviewed by others and acting on feedback to produce a more robust and higher quality deliverable.
• To make a significant contribution to knowledge sharing sessions including:
  
  • Attending knowledge sharing sessions given by all staff across departments
  • Volunteering to present on topics where the developer has good knowledge or has learned an important lesson.
  • Supporting other functions both within the team and across Landmark Group on matters where the developer has good knowledge.
    
    

Our Ideal Salesforce Developer

• An understanding of software architecture of large corporate applications
• Demonstrable skills around secure coding standards and practices
• Expert in Salesforce
• Demonstrable experience of agile working practices, Continuous Integration, GIT Flow, modern development (./C#/Nodejs) patterns and practices
• You will be the Subject Matter Expert for your area and therefore set the technical strategy for your team; creating architecture, and solving problems for the long term business through best practice approaches to operational excellence, rapid time-to-market delivery, and a frugal total cost of ownership.