Associate Salesforce Developer

About Asphalt Green 

Asphalt Green is a nonprofit organization that transforms lives and builds community through sports, fitness, and play for all. 

Each year, Asphalt Green serves thousands of New Yorkers through sports, aquatics, fitness, camps, and community programs that promote health, personal growth, and lifelong participation in physical activity. Across three campuses and numerous community partnerships, Asphalt Green is committed to providing high-quality programs that are inclusive, accessible, and rooted in excellence. 

Asphalt Green believes that access to movement, sport, and wellness can change lives. Our work helps young people develop confidence, resilience, leadership skills, and healthy habits that extend far beyond the playing field. 

About the Role 

The Associate Salesforce Developer supports the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, user-friendly solutions on the Salesforce platform. Working under the supervision of the Salesforce Solution Architect, this role will work collaboratively with the Data and Information Systems team and cross-departmental stakeholders to build functionality that improves operational efficiency, data quality, and user experience.  

This role will gain hands-on experience developing in a highly active, multi-department Salesforce environment that includes complex program registration workflows, financial processes, Experience Cloud sites, and integrations with key managed packages. The position provides exposure to modern Salesforce engineering practices, including LWC development, Apex frameworks, version control, and CI/CD.  

This is an early-career role ideal for someone eager to grow their Salesforce development skill set while contributing to meaningful organizational impact. Training, mentorship, and professional development opportunities will be provided.  

Why This Role Matters 

This role supports Asphalt Green’s ability to maximize delivery of sports, fitness, and play to all, by driving efficiencies, exposing mission and business-focused insight, reducing costs associated with providing programs and services, and improving the user experience around how participants and staff engage with the organization. The person in this position helps create a positive, organized, safe, and welcoming experience for participants, families, members, staff, athletes, students, and community partners. 

What You’ll Do 

Solution Development & Implementation

• Collaborate with the Data and Information Systems team to design, build, test, and deploy scalable Salesforce solutions that conform to established architectural patterns and meet business requirements.  

• Build and enhance Lightning Web Components, including components used on Experience Cloud sites for program registrations, evaluations, and other community user interactions.  

• Support development of custom Apex services and asynchronous processes (Queueable, Batch Apex).  

• Write Apex unit tests and integration tests to ensure reliability, maintainability, and code coverage for all custom development.  

• Work with complex managed packages (NPSP, PMM, Traction Rec, Accounting Seed, CloudBudget, Conga), extending functionality using best practices and in accordance with upgrade-safe patterns.  

• Support integration efforts between Salesforce and external systems or applications.  

• Assist with system testing, UAT coordination, debugging, and post-deployment validation.  

• Leverage and champion organization frameworks, design patterns, and styles.  

• Participate in code reviews, contribute to best practices, and help maintain consistent code quality standards.  

• Play a key role in establishing and improving our source control and CI/CD practices, helping to build a more robust, consistent, and scalable development lifecycle as the Salesforce team grows.  

User Support, Training & Documentation

• Create and maintain clear, user-friendly documentation, training materials, and job aids.  

• Provide training to new and existing users on Salesforce functionality, workflows, and system best practices.  

• Offer timely support for user issues, completing troubleshooting and resolving Salesforce cases.  

• Work with departments to refine business processes, identify automation opportunities, and ensure data quality and consistent system usage.  

• Assist with large data updates, imports, and data hygiene initiatives in collaboration with the Data Team.  

What Success Looks Like

• Strong commitment to providing mission-driven value in supporting, improving, and empowering the community that Asphalt Green serves.  

• A collaborative mindset with the ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders.  

• A proactive approach to continuous learning, innovation, and system optimization.  

• Comfort receiving and applying technical feedback, including through code reviews and architecture discussions.  

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for delivering reliable, maintainable solutions.  

• Interest in improving development processes, documentation, and coding standards as the Salesforce team grows.  

Systems You’ll Work With 

• Apex (services, trigger framework, asynchronous processing)  

• Lightning Web Components (LWC)  

• Salesforce Flows and declarative automation  

• Custom Metadata & Custom Settings  

• Experience Cloud & LWC for authenticated public users  

• Integrations with third-party systems (MuleSoft, third-party CRM systems, financial systems)  

• Managed packages: NPSP, PMM, Traction Rec, Accounting Seed, Conga, CloudBudget, Service Echo 

• Git/GitHub version control, SFDX, scratch org workflows  

• Data tools: Data Loader, Data Import Wizard, Workbench, Excel/CSV transformations  

Who You’ll Work With 

• Adaptive Programs 

• Camps 

• Community Programs 

• Customer Experience 

• Facilities 

• Finance 

• Fitness 

• Fundraising 

• Human Resources 

• Information Technology 

• Programs (Sports & Aquatics) 

• Marketing 

• Operations 

• Security 

Required Qualifications 

You’ll need:

• Unwavering commitment to data security best practices.  

• Foundational knowledge of Apex, SOQL/SOSL, Visualforce, LWC, and Salesforce development concepts.  

• Understanding of Salesforce data modeling, including standard and custom objects, relationships, and fields.  

• Familiarity with Salesforce administration, including the Lightning Experience, permission sets, automations, Nonprofit Success Pack, and Salesforce’s Sales and Service Clouds.  

• Basic understanding of modern Salesforce development practices (Git, VS Code, SFDX) or willingness to learn and adopt them.  

• Familiarity with Lightning Web Components or comparable web development frameworks.  

• Comfort working with data at volume (data imports, transformations, SOQL/aggregate queries).  

• Ability to read and understand larger Apex codebases and follow established design patterns.  

• Interest in developing integrations (REST APIs, platform events, MuleSoft as middleware).  

• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and apply them in a structured development environment.  

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an attention to detail.  

Schedule and Work Environment 

This is a hybrid role and will require occasional workdays in person. 

The work environment may include office setting, pool deck, fitness center, gymnasium, outdoor spaces, classroom spaces, community events, or other relevant spaces. 

This schedule is important because the role supports program coverage, member service, participant safety, facility operations, classes, events, or seasonal programming. 

Physical Requirements 

This role may require the ability to:

• Use equipment, supplies, or technology related to the role. 

• Perform other physical tasks required for safe and effective job performance. 

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the role.