About the role
Headquarters:
We are looking for a Salesforce Platform Lead for a global company. Their goal is to own the Salesforce platform as a product, improving release health, security, engineering standards, reusable patterns, and AI-assisted delivery.
General Information
Location: Remote. Talents from the USA or Canada.
French/English bilingual candidates are preferred for the Montreal hub.
Overlap: 6hs with East Coast time zone, USA
Commitment: full-time
Length: 12+ month
Required Skills:
6–10 years of Salesforce administration and development experience with platform ownership responsibilities
Expert-level Salesforce Flow experience
Solid hands-on experience with Apex and Lightning Web Components (LWC)
Experience with Salesforce Experience Cloud and Service Cloud
Strong Salesforce release management experience
Experience with CI/CD for Salesforce environments
Strong knowledge of Salesforce security, sharing, permissions, and platform governance
Experience defining and enforcing coding and configuration standards through hands-on pull request reviews
Experience managing production Salesforce environments, including releases, sandbox strategy, backup, and recovery
Experience designing reusable Flow, LWC, and integration patterns for development teams
Experience leading or supporting P1 production incident response
Hands-on experience using AI coding copilots and agents in Salesforce development workflows
Experience with Salesforce metadata automation, test generation, org discovery, and AI-assisted pull request review
Ability to validate AI-generated code and automation before production deployment
Optional Skills (not mandatory):
French and English bilingual proficiency
Salesforce Administrator certification
Salesforce Platform App Builder certification
Salesforce Platform Developer certification
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Deliverables
Own the Salesforce production environment, including releases, security, sandbox strategy, backup, and recovery
Define Salesforce coding and configuration standards and participate directly in pull request reviews
Build reusable reference patterns for Salesforce Flow, LWC, and integrations
Lead P1 incident response, including triage, remediation, and pairing with engineers on fixes
Drive a release cadence of two weeks or less in collaboration with QA and product stakeholders
Allocate and manage ongoing technical-debt capacity, targeting approximately 10–30% of engineering capacity
Own the AI-assisted Salesforce development toolchain, including coding copilots, test generation, org discovery agents, and pull request pre-review
Measure developer effective capacity when using AI-assisted workflows and identify friction caused by manual delivery processes
Automate operational runbooks and release-note generation while maintaining human approval for production-risk decisions
Use AI copilots and agents daily to accelerate discovery, development, testing, and documentation while remaining accountable for production decisions
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/toptal-salesforce-platform-lead-for-global-industrial-company