Senior Salesforce Developer (m/f/d)

Job description

At Statista, we’re all about facts and data, for we are the world's leading business data platform. By providing reliable and easy-to-use data as well as various data analytics products and services, we empower people worldwide to make fact-based decisions. Founded in Hamburg in 2007, we have quickly grown into a global company with offices in major cities such as London, New York, Berlin and Tokyo. And we still have a lot of plans. Our constant growth does not only prove our success, but also keeps creating new development and career opportunities for our employees. We value and celebrate our diverse culture. You are welcome here for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or whether you prefer bar graphs to pie charts. Your story matters – keep writing it as part of our team. Are you ready to join us? ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for a Senior Salesforce Developer to join our Revenue Technology team. This is a full-stack role spanning both configuration and development, requiring deep technical expertise across the entire Salesforce platform. You will be the technical backbone of our Salesforce platform — owning the design and delivery of complex solutions across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and CPQ, while working closely with business stakeholders to translate process requirements into scalable, well-architected systems. WHAT YOU WILL DO - Design and build complex Salesforce Flows, validation rules, and automation to support Sales, Customer Success, Finance, and Contract Management processes - Develop Apex classes, triggers, batch jobs, and Lightning Web Components for requirements that go beyond declarative capabilities - Own the technical design of CPQ solutions including product configuration, pricing rules, quote templates, and contract amendments - Build and maintain integrations between Salesforce and third-party systems using REST/SOAP APIs and middleware platforms such as MuleSoft - Manage deployments across sandbox and production environments using CI/CD best practices and change sets - Take ownership of technical design decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with Salesforce best practices - Contribute to platform governance data model design, security model, profile and permission set architecture, and org health - Partner with the Process team to review business requirements early and identify technical risks before build begins - Define and document technical specifications that junior developers and admins can execute against - Act as a technical reviewer for peer work and contribute to raising the overall quality bar of the team - Work directly with business stakeholders across Sales, CS, Finance, and Operations to understand requirements and translate them into well-scoped technical solutions - Participate in business process design sessions and contribute a technical perspective to how processes should be structured before they are built - Communicate technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders explaining trade-offs, constraints, and recommendations in plain language - Use AI tools (e.g. Einstein, Agentforce, or third-party LLM integrations) to enhance forecasting, opportunity scoring, and automated content generation within Salesforce - Evaluate and prototype AI-assisted workflows such as intelligent lead routing, AI-generated task recommendations, and automated data enrichment and assess their suitability for production - Stay current with Salesforce AI developments and contribute ideas on where AI can replace manual processes or improve data quality within the existing architecture WHAT YOU BRING ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE - 5+ years of hands-on Salesforce development experience in a professional environment - Strong proficiency in Apex, Lightning Web Components, SOQL, and the Salesforce data model - Deep experience with Salesforce Flow including Record-Triggered, Screen, and Scheduled Flows and a clear view of when to use declarative vs programmatic approaches - Proven experience with Sales Cloud and Service Cloud implementations at scale - Hands-on CPQ experience product rules, pricing logic, quote-to-contract lifecycle, and amendments - Experience designing and building integrations with external systems via REST/SOAP APIs - Solid understanding of Salesforce security model profiles, permission sets, field-level security, sharing rules, and OWD - Familiarity with deployment tooling change sets, Salesforce CLI, and version control workflows - Practical use of LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot) for documentation, requirements drafting, or delivery acceleration - Understanding of AI concepts (prompt engineering, RAG, agents) sufficient to evaluate and scope AI-augmented Salesforce features NICE TO HAVE - Experience with MuleSoft or equivalent integration middleware - Exposure to Salesforce CPQ billing or subscription management - Salesforce certifications - Platform Developer I/II, CPQ Specialist, or B2B Commerce - Experience working in a Revenue Operations or commercial technology context - Familiarity with Agentforce or Salesforce AI features WAYS OF WORKING - You are comfortable owning solutions end-to-end from requirements through to deployment without needing close supervision - You ask the right questions before building, not after - You document your work clearly and treat maintainability as part of the definition of done - You can work across teams and communicate technical complexity in a way that builds trust with non-technical stakeholders What we offer In addition to our great team, culture, and our shared goal of empowering people with data, there are many other things that make Statista a great place to work! Join us and benefit from: - Work from abroad up to 30 calendar days a year - Hybrid work and flex-time - International team and social events - Subsidized urban mobility and access to fitness and wellness options - Free access to Langdock and all its amazing functionalities - Career & training opportunities - Attractive locations and modern offices - Mental health support with OpenUp Some of the benefits listed here apply only to the German entity and to Junior-level roles or above.