Lead Back-End Developer

Founded in 1936, the National Wildlife Federation has grown into America's largest and most trusted grassroots conservation organization with 53 state/territorial affiliates and more than six million members and supporters, including hunters, anglers, gardeners, birders, hikers, campers, paddlers, and outdoor enthusiasts of all ages and stripes. The mission of the National Wildlife Federation is to unite all Americans to ensure wildlife thrive in our rapidly changing world. We advance this mission through programming focused on conserving wildlife, restoring habitats and waterways, expanding outdoor opportunities, connecting children with nature, advancing environmental justice, and addressing the causes and consequences of climate change.

We are looking for an e-commerce backend developer for new Garden for Wildlife™ Enterprise (GFWE) on site or remotely (https://www.gardenforwildlife.org/s/). The ideal candidate is a self-driven and independent developer who is excited about building efficient and scalable systems in a cloud-based environment from vision to production-ready. We currently use three Salesforce orgs, including Experience cloud, Nonprofit cloud and Marketing cloud. As a member of the Garden for Wildlife technology team, you will be immersed in a collaborative, innovative, and technically challenging environment. As a Salesforce Developer you will be responsible for design, development, and delivery of Salesforce artifacts. This role is more than just coding. The GFWE’s mission is to expand consumer access to native plants, scale the conservation impact, and create an engaged and diverse community of gardeners.

Your impact:

• We are looking for a back-end developer who is a lifelong learner and is excited by new challenges. We want you to use your passion to innovate, learn new tools and identify improvements to promote the conservation goals
• Work on the business logic, real-time and back office integrations, using platform technology and API to manipulate data, integrate with external services and create jobs for processing data
• Establish, enforce development standards
• Analyze business and systems requirements and provide technical solutions
• Own full feature sets and the codebase
• Provide support for production issues, including fixes across platforms

What you have:

• At least 5 years experience as a developer and 2+ years of experience developing custom functionality on Salesforce platform using Visualforce, Lightning Web Components
• Salesforce back end (Apex) development experience --> apex aallouts, apex webservice, batch apex, queueable apex, apex governor limits
• Current developer certification for Salesforce or ability to obtain it after hire
• Demonstrable problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Proficiency in using and managing version control through Git – including planning & creating branches, and performing merges
• Desire to continue to push your engineering skills through complex projects

Equally important non-technical skills:

• Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills
• Highly organized, detail oriented, and able to work autonomously
• Keeps up-to-date with industry standards and best practices. This includes, but is not limited to, mobile web, security, accessibility, and usability

Nice If You Have:

• Knowledge of Salesforce configuration, workflow, triggers, visualforce, apex coding
• Evaluate, install and administer AppExchange applications
• Salesforce Lightning experience
• Experience with Jira for issue and project tracking and confluence for documentation
• Prior agile development experience
• Familiarity with Mulesoft
• Familiarity with order management concepts

What we’ll give you:

You salary will be commensurate with your years of experience.  The starting salary for this position is $120,000.

We provide a positive, collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment that encourages experimentation and creativity.

The National Wildlife Federation values work-life balance and a family-friendly atmosphere. Our paid time-off includes 3 weeks of vacation leave, open wellbeing leave, 10 paid holidays, 3 floating holidays, a week-long winter break, and additional leave options, per year.  In addition, our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, company paid life insurance, AD&D, short and long-term disability, 16 weeks of paid FMLA leave, 403b retirement plan with employer matching and annual contribution, adoption benefits, and flexible work options including telecommuting, non-traditional work hours, and compressed work weeks.  Applicants are invited to learn more about National Wildlife Federation’s benefits package at https://www.nwf.org/About-Us/Careers.

Application:

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.  Candidates should submit both a cover letter and resume.

We strive to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) in all elements of our work and with our partners to support the interdependent needs of wildlife and people in a rapidly changing world. We recruit, employ, train compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender individual), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, genetic information, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are invited to learn more about National Wildlife Federation’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion at nwf.org/equity.

If you have a disability and require an accommodation or assistance with our online application process, please tell us how we can help by calling us at 703-438-6244.

The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules, and if you have 75% of the qualifications listed we encourage you to apply.  Your experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work, which helps build the competencies, knowledge, and skills that translates directly to our openings.  Applying gives you the opportunity to be considered.

If selected for this position, a background check will be conducted. 

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