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• We foster a culture of inclusion where everyone feels welcomed, valued, and part of Sentinel.
• Flexible work schedules, including remote and hybrid options
• Career pathing and career development
• Parental leave and family care programs
• Mental health resources
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Generous time off policies, including unlimited Flexible Time Off after 2 years of service
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• Free guidance from a Financial Planner who will help you with your retirement investments
• Sentinel Recharge (After 10 years of service, we reward employees for their hard work by offering a four-week paid sabbatical to rejuvenate)

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Salesforce/Software Engineer

Wakefield, MA

Full Time

Mid Level

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Location Note

This a hybrid role for our Wakefield, MA office (In-office one day every other week, plus additional in-person trainings and workshops as needed)

The Purpose of Your Role

The Salesforce Engineer is part of the development team and is responsible for supporting, enhancing, integrating, and extending Sentinel’s business applications, with a primary focus on the Salesforce platform and related custom systems. This role combines Salesforce platform expertise with strong software engineering capabilities across modern application development, integrations, and automation.

The Salesforce Engineer conducts requirements analysis, documents technical specifications, designs and develops scalable solutions, writes and reviews code, debugs issues, and contributes to release processes. This person works on complex technical problems, partners with internal stakeholders, and collaborates with other engineering team members to deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

What you'll bring to Sentinel

• Customer-centric attitude and commitment to doing what is right for our clients
• Expertise – You are a team player and continuous learner who shares knowledge, embraces new technologies, and looks for ways to improve our systems and processes
• Empowerment – You demonstrate strong organizational skills, the ability to manage priorities and deadlines, and the ability to troubleshoot issues independently
• Excellence – Your detail-oriented approach leads to quality results, and your communication skills allow you to work effectively with clients and internal team members
• Innovation – You learn quickly, collaborate well with others, and contribute ideas that improve our services, engineering practices, and platforms

What you’ll be responsible for

• Build and enhance solutions on the Salesforce platform using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flow, platform configuration, and API-based integrations
• Proven success delivering high-quality software projects on time, on budget, and within scope
• Ability to develop cloud-ready and containerized applications for internal and external platforms
• Experience working across CRM, custom applications, databases, and enterprise integration patterns
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, source control, testing, CI/CD, and application support

About you

We are looking for innovative thinkers to drive our business and clients forward—someone with customer focus, drive, determination, and the strength of character to challenge the status quo and therefore can deliver even better solutions than initially asked for. We strive to surround ourselves with team members who go above and beyond in all job facets and look for people who are willing to embrace change.

What you need to have

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 2–5 years of software engineering experience, including hands-on work with Salesforce technologies
• Experience designing and building solutions on the Salesforce platform
• Experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flow, Salesforce data model, security model, and integration capabilities
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs and working with JSON and XML data formats
• Experience with source control and gearset
• Familiarity with SQL/SOQL and enterprise data integration concepts
• Salesforce certifications are a plus
• Salary Range: $95,000-$105,000, depending on experience

At Sentinel, compensation is calibrated to your geographic location to reflect local market conditions; the posted salary range may vary based on where you live.

Nice to haves

• Programming skills in one or more general-purpose languages, especially Node.js and Python
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or similar cloud technologies

What you’ll be part of

Joining our company means becoming part of something special. We're driven by a mission to excel in our industry and within our team, supported by people who truly care about our organization.

Sentinel was recently recognized by The Boston Globe as a Top Place to Work in 2020 and 2023. In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, Sentinel earned a Top Workplace USA Award from Energage.

At Sentinel, we welcome people from diverse experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives – and we wouldn’t have it any other way. So even if you don’t meet every single requirement, please consider applying if you like what you see. Our priority is to find talented individuals who enrich our team culture, contribute with enthusiasm, and are passionate about what they do.

Sentinel is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

Some of our Benefits

• PTO (vacation, sick, personal time bank)
• FTO (Flexible time off for vacation, sick, and personal time) after 2 years of service
• 12 Paid Holidays (10 stated and 2 floating holidays)
• 2 Community Volunteer Days
• 5 Summer Half Days
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Life Insurance
• LTD & STD
• Retirement Plan with 4% Employer Match
• Parental Leave

See What We Stand For

https://www.sentinelgroup.com/About-Us/Join-Our-Team

Who we are

Sentinel Group proudly serves nearly 5,000 clients throughout the U.S. For 35+ years, we’ve remained devoted to positively impacting the lives of our people, our clients and our communities.With a 9-year average associate tenure among our 265 professionals, our team’s commitment to excellent service has positioned Sentinel as the only provider who makes benefits

EASY

easy for your people; easy for your business; and easy for you.

Our ultimate goal is to help companies and their employees prepare for their future health, wealth and retirement needs. Whether it’s through retirement plans, group health insurance, reimbursement accounts or financial planning, we engineer simple solutions and continuously strive to make them better. Our in-house experts – and their commitment to excellence – define who we are.

Sentinel is also one of the largest employee benefits firms in Massachusetts (Boston Business Journal) and was named a 2022 Retirement Plan Adviser of the Year in the Mentorship category (PLANADVISER Magazine).

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