Salesforce Developer

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, on-site
Employment Type: Direct hire

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Seven or more years of Salesforce development experience.
• Strong experience developing custom Salesforce solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components, SOQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Salesforce APIs.
• 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 highly-confidential environment, including not having access to some industry-standard tools due to privacy considerations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce Platform Developer I certification; Platform Developer II preferred.
• Salesforce Administrator certification.
• Experience working with nonprofit organizations, foundations, family offices, government agencies, or grantmaking environments.
• Experience supporting portals, surveys, onboarding workflows, Experience Cloud, or other external-facing Salesforce experiences.
• Experience integrating Salesforce with Microsoft 365, Azure, DocuSign, public databases, or other enterprise platforms.
• Experience partnering with or managing external Salesforce consultants and development firms.
• Experience working in highly confidential and service-oriented environments.
• Interest in working for a mission-driven organization.

Success in This Role
Success in this role means becoming the trusted internal owner of the Salesforce platform and helping the organization use it more effectively.

The successful candidate will strengthen the existing environment, deliver thoughtful custom development, improve experiences for staff and grant recipients, establish documentation and best practices, and help internal teams become more confident and effective Salesforce users.

They will also demonstrate sound judgment in determining what should be built internally, what can be handled through standard Salesforce configuration, and when the external development partner should be engaged.

About Hansell Tierney
Hansell Tierney is one of the premier staffing and recruiting companies in the Pacific Northwest. Launched in 2001, we are a woman-owned business that serves and staffs Northwest organizations by doing things the right way, not just the easiest way. Hansell Tierney partners with candidates and clients to match the best candidates with interesting local opportunities. We navigate every relationship with the highest level of discretion and service while holding ourselves accountable to our promises. Our business thrives on our deep understanding of the job market and our ability to skillfully tailor our recruitment process to meet our clients' unique needs.

This Organization Participates in E-Verify
This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

Compensation & Benefits Disclosure
The compensation range listed above represents the expected range for this position. Actual compensation may vary based on factors including experience, skills, internal equity, and geographic location.

Benefits available to eligible employees or consultants may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid sick leave, retirement savings plans, paid time off, and other employer-sponsored programs.