How to hire a salesforce developer

How to hire a salesforce developer, step by step

Here's a step-by-step salesforce developer hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a salesforce developer job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new salesforce developer
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   First, determine the employments status of the salesforce developer you need to hire. Certain salesforce developer roles might require a full-time employee, whereas others can be done by part-time workers or contractors.

   Determine employee vs contractor status

   Is the person you're thinking of hiring a US citizen or green card holder?

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   Hiring the perfect salesforce developer also involves considering the ideal background you'd like them to have. Depending on what industry or field they have experience in, they'll bring different skills to the job. It's also important to consider what levels of seniority and education the job requires and what kind of salary such a candidate would likely demand.

   This list presents salesforce developer salaries for various positions.

   Type of Salesforce Developer	Description	Hourly rate
   Salesforce Developer	Software developers are the creative minds behind computer programs. Some develop the applications that allow people to do specific tasks on a computer or another device... Show more	$36-61
   Salesforce Administrator	A salesforce administrator is considered the gatekeeper for the marketing data and sales of their employer. The administrators create each user account and identify the proper data access level based on the role of the employees within the company... Show more	$31-54
   Android Developer	An android developer is responsible for creating digital applications for the Android system market. Android developers design applications depending on their clients' specifications, business needs, or personal use... Show more	$36-61

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Apex
   • Java
   • JavaScript
   • SOQL
   • Custom Objects
   • SFDC
   • Web Services
   • CSS
   • HTML
   • Dashboards
   • Workflow Rules
   • Html Css
   • Salesforce Lightning
   • JQuery

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   Responsibilities:

   • Manage critical incident tickets, debugging and fixing the issue.
   • Implement and building tools such as Ant/Maven in order to automate and enhance the overall operational environment.
   • Manage and implement the SFDC security including security and sharing data, configuring security futures.
   • Lead operations, deploy applications, addressed production application issues, which improve operational processes on Linux machines.
   • Create UI using CSS, HTML tags, visual force tags and used java script for front-end validation.
   • Design VisualForce pages with XML, HTML along with custom controllers and controller extensions.

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3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your salesforce developer job description is a great way to entice the best and brightest candidates. A salesforce developer salary can vary based on several factors:

   • Location. For example, salesforce developers' average salary in wyoming is 34% less than in washington.
   • Seniority. Entry-level salesforce developers earn 41% less than senior-level salesforce developers.
   • Certifications. A salesforce developer with a few certifications under their belt will likely demand a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for a prestigious company or an exciting start-up can make a huge difference in a salesforce developer's salary.

   Average salesforce developer salary

   $98,375yearly

   $47.30 hourly rate

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   Entry-level salesforce developer salary

   $75,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 14, 2025

   Average salesforce developer salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	California	$131,281	$63
   2	Washington	$123,170	$59
   3	New York	$100,926	$49
   4	New Jersey	$98,727	$47
   5	District of Columbia	$98,434	$47
   6	Virginia	$97,424	$47
   7	Massachusetts	$97,244	$47
   8	Arizona	$95,796	$46
   9	Pennsylvania	$95,618	$46
   10	Connecticut	$94,226	$45
   11	Texas	$93,692	$45
   12	North Carolina	$93,226	$45
   13	Colorado	$91,792	$44
   14	Michigan	$91,604	$44
   15	Ohio	$90,290	$43
   16	Florida	$90,147	$43
   17	Illinois	$89,473	$43
   18	Georgia	$89,025	$43
   19	Minnesota	$88,808	$43
   20	Mississippi	$88,380	$42

   Average salesforce developer salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	Airbnb	$153,282	$73.69
   2	Twitter	$152,966	$73.54
   3	Atlassian	$146,382	$70.38
   4	Cloudflare	$145,641	$70.02	4
   5	Asana	$145,557	$69.98
   6	Zendesk	$142,521	$68.52
   7	Zenefits	$142,379	$68.45
   8	eBay	$142,084	$68.31
   9	Intuitive Surgical	$141,721	$68.14
   10	First Republic Bank	$141,238	$67.90
   11	Snowflake Computing	$141,188	$67.88
   12	PayPal	$141,074	$67.82
   13	DoorDash	$141,029	$67.80	1
   14	Dropbox	$140,488	$67.54	1
   15	Credit Karma	$140,321	$67.46
   16	Dotdash	$139,035	$66.84
   17	Anaplan	$138,512	$66.59
   18	Thumbtack	$138,012	$66.35
   19	Angie's List	$137,801	$66.25
   20	Palo Alto Networks	$137,788	$66.24

4. Writing a salesforce developer job description

   A salesforce developer job description should include a summary of the role, required skills, and a list of responsibilities. It's also good to include a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager. To help get you started, here's an example of a salesforce developer job description:

   Salesforce developer job description example

   CB Technology is taking digital transformation to the next level in support of Marketing, and is ramping up the team with skilled technologists to build and extend our tech stack to create a bigger impact for our clients across our digital footprint. We're creating a strategic and integrated end-to-end architecture using best-in-class tools, leveraging data and analytics to drive decisions and recommend personalized customer journeys to nurture our customer audiences and segments.
   Job Description
   Marketing automation technical subject matter expert, leveraging your depth of experience and domain expertise to create solutions to complex business problems Collaborate and partner with business product owners and technology teams to build a strategic roadmap, solution use cases that create measurable impact, with an Agile-based, design thinking approach Drive the technical aspects of end-to-end marketing automation architecture, build, configure and integrate marketing automation with other best-in-class digital marketing channels and sales platforms (Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Target, Salesforce, LinkedIn, etc.) Build data integrations and leverage data to generate a wholistic view of the customer, perform audience segmentation and targeting, create demand generation programs, personalize nurture journeys, create/improve lead scoring models, and attribution analytics Troubleshooting/debugging campaign automation solutions as well as maintaining and troubleshooting in-flight solutions
   Qualifications
   Bachelors in Information Systems or Technology-related discipline 4+ years hands-on experience in one or many Marketing Automation platforms - Salesforce Marketing Cloud required Expert in building demand generation programs, creating nurture journeys, developing lead scoring, enabling integrations with native connectors and/or API integrations Solid understanding of Marketing Cloud data model, Salesforce CRM, Lightning Web Components and UI technologies, and AMPScript Knowledgeable in various technical aspects of Digital Marketing, Marketing Automation, ABM, B2B demand generation, and Sales Enablement including familiarity with other MarTech stacks/tools, Adobe, Salesforce, Demandbase, LinkedIn, etc. Knowledgeable with data-related tools and activities - data cleansing/appending, data exporting, SQL, Datorama, Tableau Worked in an Agile, collaborative, and cross-team environment and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously Motivated, collaborative team player, learns and adapts quickly, excellent verbal and communication skills
   
   JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
   
   We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.
   
   The health and safety of our colleagues, candidates, clients and communities has been a top priority in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. JPMorgan Chase was awarded the "WELL Health-Safety Rating" for all of our 6,200 locations globally based on our operational policies, maintenance protocols, stakeholder engagement and emergency plans to address a post-COVID-19 environment.
   
   As a part of our commitment to health and safety, we have implemented various COVID-related health and safety requirements for our workforce. Employees are expected to follow the Firm's current COVID-19 or other infectious disease health and safety requirements, including local requirements. Requirements include sharing information including your vaccine card in the firm's vaccine record tool, and may include mask wearing. Requirements may change in the future with the evolving public health landscape. JPMorgan Chase will consider accommodation requests as required by applicable law.
   
   Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

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5. Post your job

   To find the right salesforce developer for your business, consider trying out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important sources of talent for any company is its existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and current employees and ask if they know or have worked with salesforce developers they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit salesforce developers who meet your education requirements.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter now have more than 3.5 billion users, and you can use social media to reach potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your salesforce developer job on Zippia to find and attract quality salesforce developer candidates.
   • Use niche websites such as dice, engineering.com, stack overflow, it job pro.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Your first interview with salesforce developer candidates should focus on their interest in the role and background experience. As the hiring process goes on, you can learn more about how they'd fit into the company culture in later rounds of interviews.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match your ideal candidate profile. If you think a candidate is good enough for the next step, you can move on to the technical interview.

   While interviews are great, you will only sometimes learn enough from a conversation with a salesforce developer applicant. In those cases, having candidates complete a test project can go a long way in figuring out who's the most likely to succeed in the role. If you aren't a technical person and don't know how to design an appropriate test, you can ask someone else on the team to create it or take a look at these websites to get a few ideas:

   • TestDome
   • CodeSignal
   • Testlify
   • BarRaiser
   • Coderbyte

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new salesforce developer

   Once you've found the salesforce developer candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.

   It's also good etiquette to follow up with applicants who don't get the job by sending them an email letting them know that the position has been filled.

   To prepare for the new employee's start date, you can create an onboarding schedule and complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9 forms, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Human Resources should also ensure that a new employee file is created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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