Junior Salesforce Developer - NASA Houston

Junior Salesforce Developer Job Description

Take your career to new heights. Come join us at MORI Associates and help us support the most exciting projects at NASA. As a Salesforce Developer I, you will be part of a dedicated team of diverse professionals creating and supporting cutting edge solutions for our client’s critical missions. MORI is a mid-sized nationwide company founded in 1997 with the ideals that creating an agile organization full of innovative and passionate people will progress science and technology for all life on earth. We focus on offering a complete range of services from strategic consulting to the development of Information Systems and providing advanced engineering solutions. Now, let’s see if this opportunity is the right challenge for you.

Overview of the position:

We are looking for an individual that can help us continually improve and enhance our Salesforce platform, guided by experienced Salesforce Developers in our IT team. Our Salesforce instance is of great importance to us; therefore you should keep the wider organization’s best interests in mind when composing and deploying any code.

We are looking for someone who is a self-starter and open to learning best practice development from the team. This role comes with the opportunity to absorb knowledge and grow as a developer.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Applicants selected will be subject to the Federal mandate regarding vaccination for Federal government contractors.
• Consistently produce clean, efficient code based on specifications and reliably and proficiently in verifying and deploying new features
• Work in a team-based development process, contributing to planning efforts, design discussions, and demos
• Develop Apex (classes and triggers), Lightning Components, and Visualforce to extend Salesforce in order to support business requirements
• Application development, including basic Visualforce pages/Lightning pages, Lightning Web Components
• Assist with each release cycle to implement and deploy new/updates to existing applications and code
• Testing (unit and systems), and debugging
• Striving towards coding best practices and data quality
• Contributing to technical documentation
• Supporting the Salesforce Administrator on occasion
• Other assigned tasks as needed

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Graduate degree, a professional qualification, or equivalent experience
• Salesforce product knowledge and at least 2 years of Salesforce development experience
• Experience implementing and developing in Apex, Visualforce, and JavaScript
• A proactive attitude to Salesforce enhancements
• A good work ethic, ready to absorb best practice from the team
• Developing solutions with best practice front of mind
• Ability to interpret technical specifications
• Ability to create technical documentation
• Salesforce certifications are a plus: Certified Salesforce Platform Developer I, Certified Salesforce Administrator, Certified JavaScript Developer
• Competency in HTML, XML, Flex, SOQL/SQL, Java or C++, REST and SOAP-based web services
• Familiarity with developing on other cloud platforms, such as Azure, AWS, GCP is a plus
• Contribution to open-source projects, or personal projects in a good state of development
• Demonstrate continued personal/professional development
• Active in the Salesforce community

Mori Associates is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.