Salesforce Developer

A private family office is seeking an experienced Salesforce Developer to lead the continued development, administration, and improvement of its Salesforce platform.

Salesforce is the organization’s primary business system and supports research, gift processing, grantmaking, due diligence, relationship management, internal operations, and interactions with grant recipients. The existing environment is functional but underutilized, with limited documentation and significant opportunity to improve its structure, capabilities, and user experience.

This role will be approximately 60% Salesforce development, 30% Salesforce administration and platform support, and 10% cross-cutting team support as needed. The Salesforce Developer will design and build custom solutions, improve the existing platform, and serve as the organization’s primary internal Salesforce subject matter expert, and be a liaison to the team’s day-to-day essential functions.

The successful candidate will work closely with a small internal team, non-technical business stakeholders, and an external Salesforce development partner. This individual must be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, iterative, and often ambiguous environment, creating structure, establishing best practices, and advising the organization on how to better use Salesforce over time.

Location: Seattle, WA, Hybrid

Employment Type: Direct hire

• Serve as the organization’s primary Salesforce developer and internal platform expert.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain custom Salesforce applications and functionality.
• Build custom solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Salesforce APIs, Flows, and other Salesforce development tools.
• Improve and extend the existing Salesforce environment to support evolving grantmaking, research, gift processing, relationship management, and operational needs.
• Design intuitive screen flows and user experiences for internal staff and grant recipients.
• Improve grant recipient onboarding, surveys, information collection, and other external-facing Salesforce interactions.
• Design and maintain Salesforce data models, custom objects, relationships, workflows, automations, and integrations.
• Develop and maintain integrations between Salesforce, external partners, public databases, and other business applications.
• Manage day-to-day Salesforce administration, including fields, permissions, user access, data quality, reports, dashboards, and system configuration.
• Support employee onboarding, training, and ongoing user adoption.
• Coach non-technical users and help internal teams better understand Salesforce capabilities and best practices.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into practical, scalable technical solutions.
• Liaise with internal grantmaking team and respond to their needs, including report requests, with agility.
• Review the existing Salesforce environment and recommend and execute improvements that increase usability, efficiency, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Create and maintain shared system documentation, technical designs, development standards, and operating procedures.
• Establish appropriate development, testing, release management, and deployment practices.
• Troubleshoot platform issues and implement sustainable solutions.
• Partner with the organization’s external Salesforce development firm, using sound judgment to determine when outside expertise is needed.
• Help manage the external partner’s work while protecting confidential organizational and grant recipient data.
• Stay current with Salesforce platform releases and recommend relevant enhancements.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Seven or more years of Salesforce development experience.
• Experience balancing Salesforce development with platform administration, configuration, and user support.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce data architecture, object relationships, security, permissions, sharing rules, and governance.
• Experience designing and building Salesforce Flows, including screen flows and guided user experiences.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrations between Salesforce and external applications or data sources.
• Experience improving and extending an existing Salesforce environment with limited documentation.
• Ability to gather business requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, internal customer service, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort working independently within a small, collaborative, non-technical team.
• Ability to create structure and establish best practices in an evolving environment.
• Experience using source control tools such as Git and following established software development and release practices.
• Ability to work in a…