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Hire Salesforce developers who build past the limits of clicks

Apex, Lightning Web Components, integrations and the deployment pipeline behind your org. A dedicated Salesforce developer from Latin America who works your hours and writes code your admins can live with.

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TRUSTED BY TEAMS WHOSE CLOUDTASK HIRES HAVE STAYED 5 TO 8 YEARS

  • Apollo
  • Vonage
  • Expensify
  • GetAccept

How it works

How do I hire a Salesforce developer?

You do one thing: interview. We handle everything else.

1

Post the role

5 minutes. The role, the motion, the tools, the comp band. That is all we need to start.

2

Review your matches

3 to 5 matches in 48 hours.

3

Interview and hire

We coordinate interviews. On Managed Staffing, we also handle payroll and compliance across LATAM.

How it works

WHY TEAMS TRUST CLOUDTASK

What you get with every hire

Dedicated to your codebase

One Salesforce developer who learns your code, your conventions and your roadmap. Not a freelancer who closes a ticket and moves on.

Same hours as your team

Latin America and the Caribbean overlap the US working day, so code review, standups and production issues get handled live.

Searched against your stack

Your clouds, your integrations and your deployment tooling come from your brief, and each profile is checked against them before you see it.

Replacement guarantee

24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire. If the fit is wrong, the guarantee covers the replacement search.

WHY CLOUDTASK

Staffing with numbers behind it

10,000+

hires placed

since 2016

85%

still in seat

past 90 days

24 months

replacement guarantee

on Managed Staffing

12

countries

across Latin America and the Caribbean

TECH STACK

The Salesforce stack we screen for

Platform code

  • Apex classes and triggers

  • Batch, queueable and scheduled Apex

  • SOQL and SOSL

  • Apex test classes

User interface

  • Lightning Web Components

  • Aura components in older orgs

  • Experience Cloud pages

  • Screen flows with custom components

Integrations

  • REST and SOAP APIs

  • Platform Events and Change Data Capture

  • Named credentials and external services

  • Middleware such as MuleSoft

Delivery

  • Salesforce CLI and scratch orgs

  • Source control for metadata

  • CI pipelines for deployments

  • Sandbox strategy

Code on a laptop and an external monitor

PRICING MODEL

Managed Staffing.

Managed Staffing is open to every role we place. We find the person, handle payments and compliance, and stay involved after the hire with check-ins, visibility, and escalation when something is off. You get the person. We keep the machine running. For roles that create demand, outbound SDRs, BDRs, demand generation and full-cycle AEs, Managed Staffing runs on a six-month minimum term.

Pay

One all-in monthly rate

Per person. That is the number, and there is nothing added to it.

In the monthly rate

  • Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
  • Screening and vetting
  • Matching coordination
  • Worker payments
  • Compliance and employment administration
  • Onboarding support at day 0, 7, 30 and 60
  • Ongoing check-ins with the hire and with you
  • Time and activity tracking, on by default
  • Performance escalation
  • 24-month replacement guarantee. Replacements not capped.
  • Health benefits available on request
  • Equipment benefits available on request

Stays with you

  • The work itself
  • Priorities and direction
  • Who you hire

$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.

Start your search

PRICING MODEL

Direct Hire.

Direct Hire is open to every role we place. We find the person, vet them, and hand them over. You employ them, you manage them, you own the relationship from day one. Roles that create demand usually land here, because live call feedback and daily coaching work best coming straight from your sales leader, and there is no minimum term.

Pay

20% to 30%

Of first-year base salary. One time, quoted per role, paid when they accept.

In the fee

  • Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
  • Screening and vetting
  • Shortlist of matched candidates
  • Interview coordination
  • Offer support
  • 6-month replacement guarantee. One replacement, same job description.

Yours when they accept

  • Employment and payroll
  • Compliance and employment administration
  • Ongoing management
  • Time and activity tracking
  • Health benefits and equipment benefits

$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.

Start your search

How CloudTask compares

Run the numbers. We did.

The same role, three ways to fill it.

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US Direct Hire Staffing Agency
Time to First Interview 48 hours 3 to 6 weeks 2 to 4 weeks
Payroll & Compliance Included on Managed Staffing You manage Included in rate
Vetting Process Human + AI verified You screen Recruiter screened
Candidate spam Screened out before you see a profile Common Low
Tool Verification Verified per candidate Self-reported Rarely verified
Free Replacements 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire None Variable
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Testimonials

Trusted by teams that hire with us

  • LATAM has been a gold mine for talent. Our CloudTask hires understand our company culture and mission, and they connect with our customers in a way that drives high NPS and CX scores.
    David Barrett
    David Barrett CEO, Expensify
  • At first we were an SF-based team only. Then I met Amir Reiter back in 2018. After visiting Medellín, I knew LATAM would be key to our growth and success.
    Tim Zheng
    Tim Zheng CEO, Apollo.io
  • After meeting my CX and CS team in Medellín, we immediately loved the culture and the work ethic. As a European-HQ company, we found LATAM to be perfect to service our American clients.
    Carl Carell
    Carl Carell CRO and Co-founder, GetAccept

SKILLS

Top skills to look for in a Salesforce developer

Writing Apex is the entry ticket. These are the skills that decide whether your org stays fast, safe to change and understandable to the admins who run it.

  • Bulk-safe Apex

    Triggers and classes that handle hundreds of records at once, with no queries or DML inside loops and one trigger per object.

  • Respect for governor limits

    Designs around the limits on queries, CPU time and heap from the start, and moves heavy work to asynchronous Apex when it belongs there.

  • Lightning Web Components

    Builds components with clean data access through Lightning Data Service or Apex, and knows when a standard component or a flow already does the job.

  • Integration patterns

    Chooses between REST callouts, Platform Events and middleware based on volume and failure modes, with retries and logging instead of silent loss.

  • Clicks before code

    Knows what flows, validation rules and configuration can do, and writes code only where declarative tools stop being maintainable.

  • Tests that assert behavior

    Test classes that check outcomes with meaningful asserts, not tests written only to reach the coverage the platform requires to deploy.

  • Metadata in source control

    Works from a repository with the Salesforce CLI, reviews changes in pull requests and deploys through a pipeline instead of change sets by hand.

  • Security and sharing

    Enforces field and object permissions and sharing rules in code, so a custom page never shows a user data they should not see.

HIRING GUIDE

How to hire Salesforce developers

A Salesforce developer hire lives or dies on judgment about the platform: when to write code and when not to, how to stay inside the limits and how to ship changes without breaking what the admins built. This guide covers what the role does, how it differs from an admin, what to test and the red flags.

What does a Salesforce developer do?

Extends Salesforce where configuration is not enough: Apex triggers and classes for business logic, Lightning Web Components for custom interfaces, and integrations that move data between Salesforce and the rest of your systems.

Day to day that means writing and reviewing code, keeping test classes meaningful, managing deployments between sandboxes and production, and fixing what breaks when data volume grows or a release changes behavior.

Salesforce developer or Salesforce admin: which do you need?

An admin runs the org through configuration: users, permissions, fields, page layouts, flows, reports and dashboards. A developer writes code on the platform when configuration stops being enough or stops being maintainable.

If your backlog is reports, user requests and pipeline stages, you need an admin, and we staff those as Salesforce experts. If it is custom logic, integrations with other systems or interfaces the standard pages cannot build, you need a developer. Many orgs need both, and they work best as a pair.

Apex, flows or configuration

Most orgs end up with the same automation written three ways: a flow, a process nobody remembers and an Apex trigger, all firing on the same object. Every change then has side effects nobody can predict.

A strong candidate asks what already runs on the object before adding anything, and can explain why a given requirement belongs in a flow, in Apex or in neither.

Integrations and data volume

Integrations are where Salesforce projects fail quietly. A sync that works with a thousand records times out with a million, and a callout with no retry loses data without telling anyone.

Ask how they have moved data in and out of Salesforce: which API they used, how they handled failures, and how they kept duplicates and limits under control.

What to test in a Salesforce developer interview

Give a small task close to your real work: a trigger that updates related records, written to handle a bulk insert, with a test class that asserts the result. Read it for queries inside loops and for whether the test checks anything.

Then describe an org with a flow and a trigger on the same object and ask what they would do before adding a new requirement. A strong answer starts by finding out what already runs.

Red flags in Salesforce developer candidates

Queries inside loops. If the interview trigger runs a query or a DML statement per record, it will hit governor limits the first time someone imports a file.

Tests written for coverage. Test classes with no asserts pass deployment and prove nothing, so bugs arrive in production anyway.

Code for everything. A developer who writes Apex for what a validation rule or a flow already does leaves your admins with logic they cannot read or change.

Change sets by hand. No source control and no pipeline means nobody knows what is in production or how to roll it back.

Sharing ignored. Custom code that skips object and field permissions can show users records they were never meant to see.

How much does it cost to hire a Salesforce developer?

It depends on seniority, the scope of the work and the country the person works from, and any single number describes one scenario and calls it a price.

What is worth understanding is the shape. On Managed Staffing it is one all-in monthly rate per person, with payments, compliance and replacement cover inside it. On Direct Hire it is a one-time fee of 20% to 30% of first-year base salary and the person goes on your payroll. We quote your number before you interview anyone.

Why hire a Salesforce developer in Latin America?

Overlap. Development runs on code review, standups and incidents, and Latin America and the Caribbean share most of the US working day, so those happen in real time instead of overnight.

The second reason is communication. Your developer writes pull request descriptions, technical notes and status updates in English, and we screen English live on a call.

How does CloudTask hire for this role?

You send the clouds you run, the integrations involved, the deployment tooling you use and the hours you need covered. We source against that brief and come back with 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours, each one screened on a live call and checked against the stack you named.

You interview and choose. On Managed Staffing we handle payments, compliance and onboarding and stay involved with check-ins. On Direct Hire the person joins your payroll from day one. Both carry a replacement guarantee: 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire.

FAQ

The fine print, in plain terms.

Do I need a Salesforce developer or a Salesforce admin?
A developer writes Apex, Lightning Web Components and integrations. An admin runs the org through configuration, flows and reports. If your work is mostly configuration and reporting, look at our Salesforce experts instead.
Can a Salesforce developer work on our existing org?
Yes, and that is most of the work. Tell us which clouds you run, the integrations involved and how you deploy today, and each profile you see is checked against them.
Can they build integrations with our other systems?
Yes. Integrations through the REST and SOAP APIs, Platform Events or middleware are a core part of the role. Name the systems in your brief so the search is filtered on them.
How fast can a Salesforce developer start?
You get 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours. After you choose, plan the first week for sandbox access, a walkthrough of your org and a small first change deployed through your process.
What is the $299 for?
It starts your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your first placement or toward a buyout, so it is not an extra cost, it is the first part of one.
Why is there no number on the monthly rate?
Because it depends on the role, the seniority and the country. We quote the all-in monthly rate per person before you interview, so you know the number before you commit to anyone.
Who is the legal employer?
On Managed Staffing, CloudTask is the contracting party and handles payments and compliance, and you direct the work. On Direct Hire, you employ and manage the hire from day one.
How does tracking work, and can I turn it off?
On Managed Staffing, time and activity tracking is on by default. Talk to us about your setup when you start your search.
What happens if the person does not work out?
Managed Staffing carries a 24-month replacement guarantee, and replacements are not capped. Direct Hire carries a 6-month replacement guarantee: one replacement for the same job description.
Is there a platform or subscription fee?
No. $299 starts your search, one time, and applies toward your first placement. There is no subscription.

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