About the role
Job Description We’re hiring | Salesforce Developer – Product Engineering Team (ISV) in Winnersh (Reading area), UK | Hybrid (3 days onsite)
At Sage, we’re looking for a Salesforce Developer to join our Sage People product engineering team in Winnersh.
Sage People is a global HR & people management SaaS product built on the Salesforce (Force.com) platform, serving customers worldwide. As an ISV, we build and evolve one single product, with a strong focus on code quality, scalability and long‑term architecture.
This is a hands-on engineering role — not Salesforce administration, not consulting, not bespoke customer development.
Team culture & environment
What really makes this role stand out is the team.
- A stable, close‑knit engineering group — many team members have worked together for 8+ years
- A friendly, supportive and human environment, where people genuinely enjoy working together
- Engineers, testers, architects and product managers collaborating daily as one product team
- A culture that values shared ownership, learning and constructive technical discussions
- Strong leadership momentum and investment, particularly around AI and Salesforce innovation
- A modern, welcoming office in Winnersh, with teams enjoying face‑to‑face collaboration as part of a hybrid model
You’ll join a team where collaboration matters more than hierarchy, and where people stay because they like both the work and the people.
Key Responsibilities What you’ll be doing
As a Salesforce Developer, you will:
- Design, develop and maintain high‑quality Salesforce solutions for a global SaaS product
- Work hands-on with: Apex, SOQL, JavaScript, Salesforce Lightning / Lightning Web Components (LWC)
- The Force.com platform, delivering customer and people management functionality
- Translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions
- Contribute to technical design, architecture discussions and system thinking
Collaborate closely with:
- Salesforce Developers team
- Angular frontend engineers
- Testers, Product Managers and Architects
- Work in a modern environment using Git, Jira, IntelliJ, CI/CD pipelines
- Take part in Scrum / SAFe ceremonies, quarterly planning and product releases
- Contribute to a product roadmap that increasingly includes AI-driven capabilities
==> Important: this role requires real, hands-on development on Salesforce — it is not a configuration or admin position.
What we’re looking for
==>Core skills (key requirements)
- Proven experience with object-oriented programming, ideally Java or C#
- Experience developing with Salesforce Lightning
- Hands-on delivery of solutions on the Force.com platform
- Strong proficiency in Apex, SOQL and JavaScript
- Ability to manage and deliver complex business and technical requirements
==> Nice to have (but not essential)
- Experience with Git, Jira and IntelliJ, and CI/CD practices
- Exposure to Salesforce REST APIs
- Salesforce Developer Certification
==>We are open to:
- Experienced Salesforce Developers, or / and
- Backend developers (Java / C#) looking to specialise in Salesforce, with strong development fundamentals and a desire to learn
==> Benefits – we have plenty
- Competitive salary plus generous bonus scheme
- Pension plan: up to 8% matched + 2% top-up by Sage
- 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to 5 more
- 8 bank holidays
- 5 paid volunteer days per year via the Sage Foundation
- 50% income protection
- Holiday buy & sell
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- Work Away scheme (up to 10 weeks per year)
- Ongoing training and professional development
- Hybrid working
- Healthy Mind app membership
- Access to financial, health and wellbeing memberships
==> Discover life at Sage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCMtTYUUiuU
If you’re looking for a Salesforce developer role with real technical depth and a genuinely great team culture, we’d love to hear from you.
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