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Join MedSpeed and help deliver health! We’re a healthcare logistics company partnering with organizations nationwide to transport vital medical supplies and specimens. At MedSpeed, teamwork, integrity, and growth drive everything we do. If you’re passionate, driven, and ready to make a real impact, we want to hear from you. Today, we have a nationwide presence with locations across the U.S., yet we’ve never lost the entrepreneurial spirit and close-knit culture that defined us from day one.

Our people are at the heart of what we do and how we support our customers. We work as one team, we keep our promises, and we get better every day. These aren’t just words; they shape how we support each other, grow together, and deliver real impact.

The Senior Salesforce Engineer will spend most of their time writing code and be responsible for developing, maintaining, and modernizing an established Salesforce platform supporting live logistics operations. They will work across Lightning Web Components, Aura Components, Visualforce, and Apex Components, confidently navigating complex architectures and tracing issues from the user interface through Apex and integration layers while ensuring reliability and data integrity.

• Core Custom Apps & UI: Build and modernize internal tools used by operations and dispatch. You will deliver new capabilities in Lightning Web Components (LWC) while strategically refactoring legacy Aura Components and Visualforce pages into modern patterns.
• Integrations & APIs: Design, build, andmaintainhigh-throughput integrations. We both consume external services and expose custom Apex REST endpoints forinternal systems.
• Automation & Async Processing: Own business-critical Batch, Queueable, and Schedulable Apex jobs. You will ensure jobs run cleanly within governor limits, implement robust retry/error-handling patterns, and guide the migration of legacy automations to Flow or modern Apex.
• Data Architecture & Complex Sharing: Build scalable data models and manage a granular record visibility architecture (Apex Managed Sharing, programmatic sharing rules, and performance tuning at scale).
• Engineering Standards & Modern Tooling: Learn andutilizeexistingpractices across CI/CD, branching strategies, and automated testing. You will help evaluate and safely integrate modern developer tooling (including AI coding assistants and Salesforce platform features likeAgentforceandPrompt Builder where they deliver genuine value)
• Write real tests: Build comprehensive unit tests with meaningful assertions and robust mock frameworks.
• Ship with discipline: Use modern Git-based workflows, automated validation, and peer code reviews
• Balance code vs. configuration: Choose Salesforce Flow and native configuration when it is the right architectural tool, and use Apex when performance, scale, or maintainability demands it.
• Own production reliability: Diagnose debug logs, governor limit exceptions, and integration timeouts to fix root causes rather than symptoms.
• Partner with the business: Collaborate directly with technical leads, BAs, and stakeholders to translate operational needs into scalable technical designs with the ability to push back constructively when a proposed approach will not scale

• 5+ years of hands-on Salesforce development experience, with the vast majority of that time spent writing Apex, building custom UI, and architecting solutions.
• Required Certification: Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I
• Preferred Certification: Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II, Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder, or Salesforce Certified System / Application Architect credentials.
• Deep Apex & Data Modeling Expertise: Advanced SOQL/SOSL, enterprise trigger handler frameworks,bulkificationpatterns, and asynchronous design (Batchable, Queueable, Schedulable)
• Integration Engineering: Proventrack recordbuilding andmaintainingcustom REST integrations on both sides (inbound and outbound), including Named Credentials, complex JSON/XML serialization, authentication protocols (OAuth 2.0), and fault-tolerant error handling
• Full-Stack Salesforce UI: Extensive experience inLightning Web Components (LWC), along with the practical fluency to read,maintain, and refactor legacyAura ComponentsandVisualforce.
• Security & Performance at Scale: Thorough mastery of Salesforce sharing architecture, record-level security, Large Data Volumes (LDV), and CPU/heap governor limit optimization.
• Modern Development Tooling: Git-based branch workflows, Salesforce CLI (sf), metadata/source format deployments, and resolving merge/deployment conflicts.
• Strong Communication: Clear technical writing ability for documentation, pull requests, and architectural discussions.
• Experience safely introducing developer productivity tools (AI-assisted coding, IDE tooling) and exploring Salesforce AI features (Agentforce, Prompt Builder).
• Familiarity with healthcare/HIPAA compliance, PHI access controls, orlogistics/transportation operations.

MedSpeed knows that doing meaningful work starts with being part of a company that values your well-being. That’s why, in addition to a collaborative and purpose-driven culture, we offer benefits that support your life both at work and beyond it. This includes medical, dental, and vision coverage; flexible spending accounts; paid time off to recharge; and a 401(k) to help you plan for the future.

The salary for this role ranges from $120,000 to $135,000, depending on factors like experience, skills, and location. A discretionary bonus is also available.

All position openings are at www.medspeed.com

As part of our hiring process, final candidates will be subject to a background check, in compliance with applicable laws.

MedSpeed is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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