Salesforce Developer Jobs in Illinois
Salesforce Developer jobs in Illinois are in strong demand, with active hiring concentrated in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and professional services firms, at levels from entry-level admin-turned-developer through senior architect. Chicago leads hiring volume by a wide margin, with suburban Schaumburg and Naperville also generating consistent openings tied to corporate headquarters and technology consulting hubs. Established Illinois employers such as United Airlines, Hyatt, and Accenture maintain sizeable Salesforce practices, and the most sought-after specialties are Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Commerce Cloud development alongside CPQ configuration and Lightning Web Components. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Company Overview:
Everything we do is for educators. We're partnering with them to advance a bold vision for education that boosts district performance and student success. At Follett Software, we empower educators across roles with technology that streamlines processes and manages information and resources to improve their schools, increase student success, and drive the future of education. We believe that by empowering educators to amplify their impact on students' lives, we can change the world. Our goal and mission is to drive the future of education. We are inspired by educators to deliver transformative technology. Our innovative, connected solutions simplify challenges and offer a seamless and intuitive experience.
POSITION SUMMARY
We are looking for a skilled and motivated Senior Salesforce Developer to join our Global Sales Operations team. This role will play a critical part in designing, building, and enhancing custom Salesforce solutions that support our EdTech SaaS business. As a member of the Salesforce team, you will work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and CPQ.
POSITION SCOPE
Salesforce Development & Solution Design
- Design, develop, test, and deploy custom Salesforce solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flow, Visualforce as needed, and SOQL/SOSL.
- Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical solutions aligned with Salesforce best practices.
- Lead technical design for enhancements, defects, and new capabilities across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, CPQ, and related platform components.
- Build reusable, maintainable, and well-documented code and components that support long-term platform scalability and supportability.
- Evaluate declarative versus programmatic solutions and recommend the most effective approach based on business need, complexity, and maintainability.
Platform Configuration & Administration Support
- Configure and maintain standard and custom objects, fields, page layouts, record types, validation rules, approval processes, flows, and other platform features.
- Support ongoing optimization of Salesforce configuration to improve usability, performance, and adoption.
- Establish and maintain standards for naming conventions, field usage, picklists, report folders, dashboards, and other system elements to improve consistency and user experience.
- Partner with administrators and business stakeholders to ensure configuration changes are aligned with governance standards and downstream impacts are understood.
Integration & Data Management
- Design, build, and support integrations between Salesforce and external systems using REST/SOAP APIs, middleware, and other integration tools.
- Troubleshoot integration issues, data sync failures, and system exceptions across connected applications.
- Support data migration, data loads, data transformation, and data cleansing activities as needed for projects and releases.
- Help ensure data integrity across Salesforce and integrated systems by identifying root causes of data issues and recommending corrective actions.
Security, Governance & Compliance
- Manage and maintain Salesforce security settings, including profiles, permission sets, role hierarchy, sharing rules, and field-level security.
- Conduct regular reviews and audits of security, configuration, and platform usage to ensure compliance with internal standards and best practices.
- Support governance processes related to change management, documentation, release readiness, and technical design standards.
- Identify technical debt, risk, and platform improvement opportunities and provide recommendations for remediation.
Testing, Deployment & Release Management
- Participate in code reviews and enforce coding standards, testing discipline, and development best practices.
- Write and maintain unit tests and support automated testing to ensure quality, reliability, and deployment readiness.
- Follow DevOps and release management practices using tools such as Gearset, Copado, Salesforce DX, or comparable CI/CD solutions.
- Assist with sandbox strategy, refreshes, release deployments, regression testing, and post-deployment validation.
- Support production releases and resolve issues arising from deployments in a timely manner.
Documentation & Technical Support
- Create and maintain clear documentation for system design, technical specifications, code, configuration, processes, and support procedures.
- Author requirements, definition, design, and other project and system documentation as needed.
- Identify and translate user requirements into business, functional, technical, and test scenarios for projects of varying size and complexity.
- Provide Level 2/3 support for Salesforce-related incidents, service requests, and production issues.
- Troubleshoot defects and work with stakeholders to prioritize and resolve issues effectively.
Collaboration & Leadership
- Partner with business stakeholders, Salesforce administrators, analysts, QA resources, and external vendors to deliver effective solutions.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members, administrators, or contractors as needed.
- Participate in backlog refinement, project planning, effort estimation, and prioritization discussions.
- Communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of development standards, support processes, platform governance, and overall system usability.
Other
- Support additional platform, integration, release, and cross-functional initiatives as needed.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience or equivalent combination of education and practical experience.
- 4–7+ years of Salesforce development experience with hands-on experience in Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOQL, SOSL, Flows, and Salesforce platform development best practices.
- Experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying Salesforce solutions that are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business requirements.
- Experience building and supporting Salesforce solutions across key platform capabilities, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Salesforce CPQ, and related business processes.
- Working knowledge of Salesforce integrations, data models, security concepts, and platform configuration, including REST/SOAP APIs, middleware, sharing rules, permission sets, deployment processes, and release management practices.
- Experience with Salesforce development lifecycle processes, including source control, code reviews, automated testing, Salesforce DX, Copado, Gearset, or similar DevOps and deployment tools.
- Understanding of Agile delivery methodologies and experience partnering with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate and resolve Salesforce platform, integration, data, and performance-related issues.
- Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, and end users.
- Experience supporting Salesforce environments with evolving business processes, integrations, data updates, enhancements, and ongoing platform improvements.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity while ensuring solutions meet organizational standards for quality, security, compliance, and performance.
Salesforce Certifications
Candidates should hold several of the following Salesforce certifications:
- Salesforce Platform Developer I (required)
- Salesforce Platform Developer II (strongly preferred)
- Salesforce Administrator
- Salesforce Advanced Administrator (preferred)
- Salesforce Sales Cloud Consultant
- Salesforce Service Cloud Consultant
- Salesforce CPQ Specialist (a plus)
- Salesforce Application Architect (preferred)
- Salesforce Sharing and Visibility Designer (a plus)
- Salesforce JavaScript Developer I (a plus)
WORK ENVIRONMENT
- This role is remote and only open to candidates currently located in the United States and able to work without sponsorship.
- It requires a suitable space that provides a private and quiet workplace.
- Work hours and schedules are set to accommodate the requirements of the position and the needs of the organization and may be adjusted as needed.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Perform tasks in a home office environment with frequent virtual meetings, communications, and interruptions, requiring effective time management and prioritization.
- Prolonged sitting with sustained visual focus on digital screens, requiring the ability to interact at a typical working distance.
- Frequent use of keyboard and mouse, involving repetitive hand movements and fine motor skills for typing, navigating, and handling materials.
- Occasionally adjust position or move within the workspace to reach, retrieve, or access items, involving bending, twisting, or reaching, and occasionally lifting or carrying items weighing up to 10 pounds.
- Travel requirements: Minimal (less than 10%)
This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. However, this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
EEO
Follett Software provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you are interested in applying for employment and need assistance or an accommodation in the application process due to a disability, please contact us by email and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
Email: recruiting@follettsoftware.com
CCPA Notice for California Residents: https://follettsoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Notice-to-California-Applicants.pdf
Company Overview:
Everything we do is for educators. We're partnering with them to advance a bold vision for education that boosts district performance and student success. At Follett Software, we empower educators across roles with technology that streamlines processes and manages information and resources to improve their schools, increase student success, and drive the future of education. We believe that by empowering educators to amplify their impact on students' lives, we can change the world. Our goal and mission is to drive the future of education. We are inspired by educators to deliver transformative technology. Our innovative, connected solutions simplify challenges and offer a seamless and intuitive experience.
POSITION SUMMARY
We are looking for a skilled and motivated Senior Salesforce Developer to join our Global Sales Operations team. This role will play a critical part in designing, building, and enhancing custom Salesforce solutions that support our EdTech SaaS business. As a member of the Salesforce team, you will work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and CPQ.
POSITION SCOPE
Salesforce Development & Solution Design
- Design, develop, test, and deploy custom Salesforce solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flow, Visualforce as needed, and SOQL/SOSL.
- Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical solutions aligned with Salesforce best practices.
- Lead technical design for enhancements, defects, and new capabilities across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, CPQ, and related platform components.
- Build reusable, maintainable, and well-documented code and components that support long-term platform scalability and supportability.
- Evaluate declarative versus programmatic solutions and recommend the most effective approach based on business need, complexity, and maintainability.
Platform Configuration & Administration Support
- Configure and maintain standard and custom objects, fields, page layouts, record types, validation rules, approval processes, flows, and other platform features.
- Support ongoing optimization of Salesforce configuration to improve usability, performance, and adoption.
- Establish and maintain standards for naming conventions, field usage, picklists, report folders, dashboards, and other system elements to improve consistency and user experience.
- Partner with administrators and business stakeholders to ensure configuration changes are aligned with governance standards and downstream impacts are understood.
Integration & Data Management
- Design, build, and support integrations between Salesforce and external systems using REST/SOAP APIs, middleware, and other integration tools.
- Troubleshoot integration issues, data sync failures, and system exceptions across connected applications.
- Support data migration, data loads, data transformation, and data cleansing activities as needed for projects and releases.
- Help ensure data integrity across Salesforce and integrated systems by identifying root causes of data issues and recommending corrective actions.
Security, Governance & Compliance
- Manage and maintain Salesforce security settings, including profiles, permission sets, role hierarchy, sharing rules, and field-level security.
- Conduct regular reviews and audits of security, configuration, and platform usage to ensure compliance with internal standards and best practices.
- Support governance processes related to change management, documentation, release readiness, and technical design standards.
- Identify technical debt, risk, and platform improvement opportunities and provide recommendations for remediation.
Testing, Deployment & Release Management
- Participate in code reviews and enforce coding standards, testing discipline, and development best practices.
- Write and maintain unit tests and support automated testing to ensure quality, reliability, and deployment readiness.
- Follow DevOps and release management practices using tools such as Gearset, Copado, Salesforce DX, or comparable CI/CD solutions.
- Assist with sandbox strategy, refreshes, release deployments, regression testing, and post-deployment validation.
- Support production releases and resolve issues arising from deployments in a timely manner.
Documentation & Technical Support
- Create and maintain clear documentation for system design, technical specifications, code, configuration, processes, and support procedures.
- Author requirements, definition, design, and other project and system documentation as needed.
- Identify and translate user requirements into business, functional, technical, and test scenarios for projects of varying size and complexity.
- Provide Level 2/3 support for Salesforce-related incidents, service requests, and production issues.
- Troubleshoot defects and work with stakeholders to prioritize and resolve issues effectively.
Collaboration & Leadership
- Partner with business stakeholders, Salesforce administrators, analysts, QA resources, and external vendors to deliver effective solutions.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members, administrators, or contractors as needed.
- Participate in backlog refinement, project planning, effort estimation, and prioritization discussions.
- Communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of development standards, support processes, platform governance, and overall system usability.
Other
- Support additional platform, integration, release, and cross-functional initiatives as needed.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience or equivalent combination of education and practical experience.
- 4–7+ years of Salesforce development experience with hands-on experience in Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOQL, SOSL, Flows, and Salesforce platform development best practices.
- Experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying Salesforce solutions that are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business requirements.
- Experience building and supporting Salesforce solutions across key platform capabilities, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Salesforce CPQ, and related business processes.
- Working knowledge of Salesforce integrations, data models, security concepts, and platform configuration, including REST/SOAP APIs, middleware, sharing rules, permission sets, deployment processes, and release management practices.
- Experience with Salesforce development lifecycle processes, including source control, code reviews, automated testing, Salesforce DX, Copado, Gearset, or similar DevOps and deployment tools.
- Understanding of Agile delivery methodologies and experience partnering with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate and resolve Salesforce platform, integration, data, and performance-related issues.
- Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, and end users.
- Experience supporting Salesforce environments with evolving business processes, integrations, data updates, enhancements, and ongoing platform improvements.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity while ensuring solutions meet organizational standards for quality, security, compliance, and performance.
Salesforce Certifications
Candidates should hold several of the following Salesforce certifications:
- Salesforce Platform Developer I (required)
- Salesforce Platform Developer II (strongly preferred)
- Salesforce Administrator
- Salesforce Advanced Administrator (preferred)
- Salesforce Sales Cloud Consultant
- Salesforce Service Cloud Consultant
- Salesforce CPQ Specialist (a plus)
- Salesforce Application Architect (preferred)
- Salesforce Sharing and Visibility Designer (a plus)
- Salesforce JavaScript Developer I (a plus)
WORK ENVIRONMENT
- This role is remote and only open to candidates currently located in the United States and able to work without sponsorship.
- It requires a suitable space that provides a private and quiet workplace.
- Work hours and schedules are set to accommodate the requirements of the position and the needs of the organization and may be adjusted as needed.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Perform tasks in a home office environment with frequent virtual meetings, communications, and interruptions, requiring effective time management and prioritization.
- Prolonged sitting with sustained visual focus on digital screens, requiring the ability to interact at a typical working distance.
- Frequent use of keyboard and mouse, involving repetitive hand movements and fine motor skills for typing, navigating, and handling materials.
- Occasionally adjust position or move within the workspace to reach, retrieve, or access items, involving bending, twisting, or reaching, and occasionally lifting or carrying items weighing up to 10 pounds.
- Travel requirements: Minimal (less than 10%)
This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. However, this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
EEO
Follett Software provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you are interested in applying for employment and need assistance or an accommodation in the application process due to a disability, please contact us by email and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
Email: recruiting@follettsoftware.com
CCPA Notice for California Residents: https://follettsoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Notice-to-California-Applicants.pdf
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What Illinois Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in salesforce developer jobs across Illinois.
- Active Salesforce Platform Developer I or Platform Developer II certification required
- Hands-on experience building custom solutions using Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning Web Components
- Proven ability to integrate Salesforce with external systems via REST and SOAP APIs
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related technical field
- Experience working within Agile or Scrum delivery teams on enterprise Salesforce projects
- Familiarity with Salesforce CPQ, Sales Cloud, or Service Cloud in a B2B environment
Salesforce Developer Jobs in Illinois: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a salesforce developer in Illinois?
Start by completing Salesforce's free Trailhead learning paths and earning the Platform Developer I certification, which is the baseline credential Illinois employers expect. Illinois has no state-issued license for this role. Most developers break in through a computer science or information systems degree, a coding bootcamp, or by transitioning from a Salesforce administrator role. Building a portfolio of Salesforce org projects in a developer edition environment significantly strengthens applications to Illinois employers.
How much do salesforce developers make in Illinois?
Salesforce developers in Illinois earn a median of about $132,110 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $80,980 for the lowest 10% to over $194,740 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire salesforce developers in Illinois?
Employers hiring salesforce developers in Illinois right now include TriWest Healthcare Alliance, SMBHD, and LTM Limited, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Illinois's density of Fortune 500 headquarters and large consulting firms means steady demand across both in-house corporate teams and client-facing delivery practices.
Which Illinois cities have the most salesforce developer jobs?
Chicago, Des Plaines, and Oak Brook have the most salesforce developer openings in Illinois. Chicago dominates because of its concentration of financial services firms, healthcare systems, and global consulting offices, while Naperville and Schaumburg generate openings from the corporate campuses and technology consulting centers clustered in the western and northwestern suburbs.
Are there remote salesforce developer jobs in Illinois?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 33% of salesforce developer openings tied to Illinois are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting how thoroughly this work is done through a browser rather than on-site hardware. Configuration, development, and integration work travel well remotely, while discovery workshops and stakeholder training sessions more commonly require in-person presence.
How can I get hired as a salesforce developer in Illinois with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is transitioning from a Salesforce administrator or business analyst role, which many large Illinois employers such as insurance companies, health systems, and consulting firms hire for without requiring development experience. Earning Platform Developer I certification and completing a self-built org project that solves a real business problem gives a concrete portfolio to show. Entry-level associate developer or junior consultant roles at Chicago-area Salesforce implementation partners are also a direct route for candidates with certification but no professional history.
Where can I find and apply to salesforce developer jobs in Illinois?
You can find and apply to salesforce developer jobs in Illinois on Migrate Mate, which lists current Illinois openings from employers actively hiring. Find roles that fit your experience and apply directly from the listing.
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