At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead Salesforce development and shape innovative mobile capabilities for enhanced customer experience.
- Company: Dynamic tech company in Windsor, offering a hybrid work environment.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, flexible working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with a focus on AI-enabled solutions and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Join a team driving engineering excellence and make a real impact with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Strong Salesforce expertise and experience in leading technical direction across teams.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Job Type: Contract · Inside IR35
Location: Windsor, UK — Hybrid (1 day a week)
Duration: 6 months
Job Purpose and primary objectives
- Provide technical leadership and architectural direction to Salesforce developers and business stakeholders.
- Define and own Salesforce system architecture, standards, patterns, and guardrails across APIs, integration layers, and platform services.
- Shape and deliver new mobile capabilities that improve safety, compliance, customer experience, and field productivity.
- Champion engineering excellence including clean architecture, CI/CD automation, testing strategies, observability, release processes, performance optimisation, and secure-by-design practices.
- Ensure platform reliability, resilience, and strong technical understanding.
- Continuously improve ways of working through automation and AI-enabled tooling, while retaining human accountability for technical decisions.
Key Skills/Knowledge
- Strong technical expertise in Salesforce – service cloud, E&U cloud preferred.
- Deep understanding of LWC, APEX, Flows and API developments.
- Proven experience defining and influencing engineering standards, coding practices, and architectural guardrails across multiple teams.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines - Github knowledge and deployment experience.
- Ability to solve complex, ambiguous, cross-domain technical problems.
- Working knowledge of AI-enabled engineering practices.
Experience required
- Significant experience as a Senior or Principal Software Engineer within complex digital or platform-based environments and Salesforce service cloud with some industry cloud knowledge.
- Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams without direct line management responsibility.
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience operating within established architectural frameworks, security standards, and data privacy requirements.
- Ability to design, integrate and operate AI-enabled solutions within enterprise environments, including prompt-driven workflows, retrieval-augmented systems and AI agents. Applying structured evaluation, testing and monitoring practices to ensure AI outputs are reliable, secure and compliant with organisational guardrails.
- Prepares and manages data used in AI workflows and takes responsibility for the responsible lifecycle of AI features from experimentation through to deployment and continuous improvement.
- Client facing, excellent communication, team leadership, co-ordination, and multiple vendor engagement skills.
Salesforce Principal Engineer in Windsor employer: Intelstack
As a Salesforce Principal Engineer at our Windsor location, you will thrive in a dynamic hybrid work environment that fosters innovation and collaboration. We prioritise employee growth through continuous learning opportunities and champion a culture of engineering excellence, ensuring that your contributions directly enhance customer experience and operational efficiency. Join us to be part of a forward-thinking team that values technical leadership and embraces cutting-edge technologies, all while enjoying the benefits of a supportive and flexible workplace.
We think you need these skills to ace Salesforce Principal Engineer in Windsor
Salesforce Expertise
Service Cloud
E&U Cloud
LWC (Lightning Web Components)
APEX
Flows
API Development
