Senior Software Engineer (Salesforce)

About NavaNava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation working to make government services simple, effective, and accessible to all. Since 2013, federal, state, and local government agencies have trusted Nava to build transformative digital services to help people access public benefits. Meeting our mission is an opportunity to restore trust between people and public institutions. We focus on populations that are the least protected because the stakes are higher.

As a client services company, we work with government agencies to improve how people apply for benefits, navigate their health care, and more. We bill for our time, selling our expertise and problem-solving methodology to government clients. Our clients hire us to help improve their products and services so that their users and beneficiaries have a better customer experience.

These end-users—the humans who benefit from our work—are at the core of everything we do. We research beneficiaries’ needs to help our government clients better deliver on their missions, providing everyone at Nava opportunities to do meaningful, impactful work.

The Senior Software Engineer’s purpose is to improve overall engineering quality through documentation, technical guidance and mentoring, and applying best practices to the work. The incumbent leads significant migration efforts and routinely works with government stakeholders to get buy-in on technical initiatives. This role collaborates with the product team, government stakeholders, and other contractors to build new systems and make improvements to existing systems. These responsibilities support Nava’s culture and mission: Be Active Stewards, Pursue the Root Cause, Think Long-Term, Build Together, Inclusion is Essential and Progress Takes Work.

What You'll do:

• Working with fellow Nava engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software
• Collaborate with government partners and other contractors to architect, implement, and deploy new systems and improvements to existing systems
• Working in an agile manner to efficiently ship new features that meet user needs
• Creating tools and processes to automate our development, testing, and production workflows
• Writing and reviewing technical documentation, performing code reviewsParticipating in an on-call rotation to support production systems and investigate issues when they occur
• Taking part in hiring activities (e.g., submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and attending interview debriefs), as needed
• Assist in developing the overall vision for our salesforce updating and integration
• Will implement merge of 2 similar, but distinct, salesforce orgsIntegrate with external data sources
• Consolidate, and improve the separate data models from each org into a cohesive whole that can scale with the organization
• Analyze existing Apex code and determine what should be kept, rewritten, or moved to a Flow
• Analyze existing Flows and code and consolidate into a thought out set of flows and code that are logically grouped and represent current business processes

Required Skills:

• Senior Salesforce Engineer that will work with an Architect and junior developers to decide and implement modernization strategies
• At least 5 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium to large-scale Salesforce applications
• Experience with AWS and SQL databases a plus
• Understanding of user interface design best practices
• Demonstrated ability to integrate Salesforce into an enterprise level cloud application
• Tenacity to dive into problems and iterate in working code
• Equal parts systems thinker and advocate for usersHighly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented
• Ability to think strategically around trade-offs and short term vs. long term benefits
• An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and positive mindset
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise