Salesforce Developer

Job Title: Salesforce Developer

Team: Systems

Location: Hybrid in Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), or Newark (NJ)

Employment Type: Full-time

Start Date: October 2025

Braven is a national nonprofit that prepares promising young peoplemany of whom are people of color, from low-income backgrounds, and the first in their families to attend collegeto secure a strong first opportunity after college graduation through a career-accelerating program.

We work with higher education and employer partners to offer a life-changing experience that begins with a semester-long course for college students followed by support that lasts through graduation.

Together, we are helping to open up access to the American Promise, empowering a generation of leaders who mirror the diversity of our country.

To learn more, take a look at Braven's Jobs Report.

In order to achieve its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring a Salesforce Developer who will play a crucial role in designing and implementing customized and scalable Salesforce solutions that drive organizational impact. In this role, you will translate user stories and requirements into technical solutions. Key responsibilities include developing and implementing customized Salesforce solutions, ensuring seamless integration with other systems, troubleshooting and resolving technical issues, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance Braven's Salesforce infrastructure in support of organizational growth and impact.

This role is on the Systems team and reports directly to the Salesforce Architect.

Solution Development & Implementation (75%)

• Collaborate with Salesforce Solution Engineers, Architects, and cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and ensure alignment with overall project goals and objectives.
• Manage System team internal projects, including DevOps improvements, automation audit, and data deduplication.
• Develop customized Salesforce solutions, including Apex classes, Lightning Web Components, and Visualforce pages, that address complex business needs and technical challenges.
• Deploy scalable, dynamic, and maintainable Salesforce applications, leveraging custom objects, flow, triggers, and integrations to meet the evolving needs of Braven's operations.
• Write, optimize, and maintain clean, efficient, and high-performance code, ensuring scalability, and adherence to Salesforce best practices and governance standards.
• Test and debug solutions, identifying and resolving complex technical issues throughout the development lifecycle to maintain a robust Salesforce platform.
• Drive continuous improvement of the Salesforce platform by identifying opportunities for new features, enhancements, and automations to optimize functionality and enhance the user experience.

Knowledge-Sharing (25%)

• Translate complex Salesforce processes and solutions into user-friendly documentation, resources, and training materials for technical and non-technical teams.
• Promote a culture of knowledge-sharing by encouraging team members to stay up-to-date with Salesforce innovations, tools, and methodologies.

• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• At least 3 - 5 years of professional experience in the Salesforce platform.
• Salesforce Certifications: Platform Developer I.
• Experience with flows to enhance Salesforce automation and streamline processes.
• Experience with using Salesforce CLI, Github, managing sandbox environments, implementing continuous testing, and deploying changes into production.
• Strong experience in Salesforce development environments including Apex triggers / classes, Lightning Web Components, Flows, Visualforce pages / controllers, and other advanced Salesforce configuration such as Sharing and Profile & Permission Set security.

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional Salesforce certifications: Administrator, Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder, Platform Developer II, and/or Javascript Developer I.
• Experience in a non profit setting using Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP). Experience Cloud knowledge is a plus.
• Experience with one or more relevant tools that integrate with Salesforce such as Campaign Monitor, Classy, Conga, Duplicate Check, Excel/Google Sheets, FormAssembly, Mogli, and Tableau.
• Familiar with public cloud providers such as Google Cloud, and AWS.
• Experience with REST-based web services.
• Knowledge and experience in implementing Salesforce best practices related to field creation, page layout customization, and duplicate management.
• Experience in Agile methodologies and project management tools (e.g., Asana, Jira, etc.) preferred.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions.
• You have a strong design sense when crafting data models, holding yourself and others to a high bar when it comes to creating schemas that balance ease of use, efficiency, and data integrity.
• Strong collaborative skills with a clear understanding of how data and operations contribute to organizational goals.
• Proven ability to serve as the technical lead cross-functional and strategically important projects while maintaining attention to detail in daily operations.
• Ability to thrive and lead multiple projects in a fast-paced work environment.
• Demonstrated commitment to building strong and welcoming cultures that help to develop others.
• Exemplification of Braven's core values.
• Experience that has informed your belief in Braven's mission and has prepared you to work with, or for, Braven's student Fellow population

Please know that no one ever meets 100% of the preferred qualifications. If much of this describes you, we encourage you to apply.

Work Demands

• Ability to work in-person in Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), or Newark (NJ)
• Travel 1-2 times per year

Additional Requirements

• Authorized to work in the U.S.
• Braven doesn't offer employment visa sponsorship

Application & Interview Process

While the interview process may vary slightly, the general process will be:

• Phone screen with Talent Team member
• Performance Task
• Technical Interview with Hiring Manager
• Panel Interview with Key Partners
• Reference Checks

Benefits

The salary for this position, which depends on prior work experience and our assessment of your demonstrated fit for the role, will likely be between $105,000-$131,200 in Atlanta, $110,500-$138,100 in Chicago, and $121,600-$152,000 in Newark. Braven offers competitive base salaries based on the midpoint of the market among not-for-profit organizations of similar size, with opportunities for salary growth over time. We believe in compensating staff members fairly in relation to each other, their qualifications, and their impact on behalf of the organization, and take internal and external equity seriously. Given our commitment to equity, Braven does not negotiate salary offers; instead each salary offer is determined carefully using external and internal benchmarking. You will have an opportunity to discuss salary in more detail after you begin the application process.

Braven also provides competitive, comprehensive benefits, recognition, and career development.

While Braven reserves the right to change benefits at any time, current benefits include:

• Unlimited vacation time in addition to org-wide holidays and week-long shutdowns in July and the end of the calendar year (this is a minimum of 19 days per year)
• Match of your 401K contribution up to 5% of your base annual salary, starting your first full month
• Coverage of 85% of health insurance premium for employee and dependents
• A one-month paid sabbatical after 4 years on staff

Location

We gather in the office 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday) and work remotely 2 days a week (Monday and Friday). Therefore, this role requires teammates to live within commuting distance of one of our hubs: Atlanta, Chicago, or Newark. We believe in the magic, connection, and collaboration that happens when people work together face-to-face, and we believe in giving people flexibility to focus, balance personal priorities, and save themselves two commutes per week.

Braven is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor. We encourage talented individuals of all backgrounds to apply.