Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond. 

The Role

The Platforms team at Fastmarkets builds and maintains business critical SaaS platforms used every day to run our business. The primary platforms supported by the team are Salesforce and Mulesoft. We have an exciting roadmap of transformation projects, along with “business as usual” (BAU) and support workstreams.

As a Platform Developer (Salesforce) you will be part of a cross-functional Scrum team of Salesforce specialists building, testing and implementing new features for large projects. In addition, about 20% of your time will be spent working on BAU and support tickets. As a mid-level role, you will be running small projects independently and contributing towards the delivery of large projects.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Platforms Solution Architect.

Principal Accountabilities

Salesforce Configuration, Customisation and Development

• Solution design for small projects and BAU enhancements, leveraging out of the box Salesforce capability as much as possible and minimising customisation and development.
• Independently deliver small projects and BAU enhancements by enhancing Salesforce out of the box functionality
• Support delivery of large, complex projects, working in collaboration with senior team members
• Develop Flows, Validation Rules, Approval Processes, page layouts, Lightning App Builder, Apex classes, triggers, test classes, Lightning Web Components, integrations and automations, as required to deliver projects.
• Follow development standards and produce good documentation
• Perform code releases in a repeatable and controlled manner

Teamwork and Collaboration

• Work closely with both team members and across technology to deliver projects
• Engage with business stakeholders to verify requirements and support rollout of features.
• Be visible in team stand-ups, demos, and retros, contributing ideas and sharing progress.

Learning and Development

• Gain and maintain relevant Salesforce certifications.
• Engage with internal training resources, mentoring, and peer learning opportunities, to develop skills that improve your effectiveness.
• Stay up to date with new Salesforce releases, tools, and platform capabilities.

KEY INTERFACES

• Fastmarkets Platforms Team members
• Fastmarkets Technology resources
• Fastmarkets business stakeholders across Sales, Product, Finance, Operations & Events

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

• 3 years+ experience as a developer on Salesforce projects
• Experience with both Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, including knowledge of relevant business processes (e.g. opportunities, quotes, case management)
• Strong technical understanding of Salesforce, including object relationships, security model, Flow, Apex, SOQL, and Lightning Web Components.
• Good understanding of agile delivery methods, Scrum preferred.
• Confident managing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub, Gearset).
• Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to estimate tasks accurately, keeping stakeholders informed as required
• Motivated self-starter, able to operate independently
• Salesforce certified Administrator and Developer
• Relevant IT degree or equivalent

DESIRABLE SKILLS

• Experience with enterprise integrations (APIs, middleware, ETL tools).
• Experience implementing Mulesoft, CPQ or Agentforce
• Other coding languages such as Java or Python

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.