Homeward takes the “what ifs” out of homebuying by creating financial products that give buyers and sellers certainty and convenience. We’re a fast-paced, remote-first real estate startup that partners with real estate agents to offer innovative products and services, helping clients buy with cash, sell with certainty, and time their move, regardless of the market.
Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018 to fix the antiquated and broken real estate process. Today, we offer bundled cash offers, mortgage, and title services in 13 states, enabling buyers and sellers to move with certainty and convenience.
We’re a fully remote company with a diverse team spread across several countries - Grounded in three core values: The Golden Rule, One Team One Dream, and Calm Focus. Hear from our employees about what our values mean to them.
Homeward is looking for a Senior Salesforce Developer to join the team responsible for the design, implementation, and success of our Salesforce ecosphere. This individual will be responsible for owning support issues on a day-to-day basis, developing runbooks, and contributing to new strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who takes pride in ownership of their projects, can effectively diagnose issues, develop solutions quickly, and communicate clearly with multiple stakeholders.
Responsibilities:- Join our Salesforce Systems Team and have an immediate impact on the company and the implementation of our Salesforce instance
- Work directly with our Product and Engineering Team, members of our Sales & Operations teams, as well as the organization as a whole, to improve the process of buying and selling homes
- Prioritize and manage incoming development requests from stakeholders, and effectively oversee the ticket queue to ensure timely resolution of Salesforce issues and enhancements.
- Collaborate on projects ranging from 3rd party integrations to development of new business processes that promote efficiency, scalability, and risk mitigation
- Focus on bridging the gap between development and end users
- Contribute to documentation, product scoping, and training
- Collaborate on strategies to manage Salesforce metadata & tabular data
- Work side-by-side with our existing Salesforce experts to own Salesforce implementation and architecture planning
- Work closely with our engineering team to build integrations & develop processes that scale our operations & sales efforts
- Wear both development and administration hats - as a growing organization, we’ll need an administrator who can fill both roles to ensure we plan data structures and configurations for scaling
- 4+ years of Salesforce development experience, ideally in a start-up environment
- Strong ownership of delivering high-quality solutions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
- Demonstrated ability to manage an inbound stream of requests effectively
- Proven track record of working cross-functionally with stakeholders to communicate and deliver outcomes
- Experience developing within a highly customized Salesforce environment
- Ability to be flexible, wear many hats, pivot, and enjoy a dynamic environment
- Self-starter mentality with experience devising and testing hypotheses and implementing research plans; someone who can help the business identify the right questions to ask
- Credentials - Platform Developer I and Platform Developer II
- Experience with a variety of developer-focused solutions, including:
- Apex Triggers
- Queueable Classes
- Schedulable Classes
- Batch Classes
- LWC, Aura, and Visualforce Components
- Trigger Frameworks
- Experience with Salesforce developer tools such as:
- Github
- Gearset
- VSCode
- Nebula Logger
- Salesforce CLI
- Github Co-Pilot
- Experience with business operations tools such as:
- Dialpad
- Hubspot
- Zapier
- LeanData
- Validity
- And other Salesforce adjacent/integrated tools
- An open and collaborative mentality, Homeward is rapidly scaling its business and working with Salesforce will require analytical rigor, well-designed solutions, & strong collaboration
THE GOLDEN RULE. It’s simple: Treat others the way we want to be treated. Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.
CALM FOCUS. We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. But by focusing on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next, we can create solutions our customers love.
ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM. Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experiences holistically and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams and our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title.
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What We Do
Buying a home should be an exciting milestone. But all too often, it’s stressful, especially when you’re buying and selling at the same time. So we’re redesigning the home-buying experience. We’re a fast-paced real estate startup that empowers agents to help homebuyers craft their best offer – so they can buy before they sell, get better terms with a cash offer, and close on time. Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, a 10-year industry veteran and owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018. In fact, he bought our first customer’s home with his life savings. His idea has evolved into our Homeward Offer. It’s more than an offer; it’s the power to buy a new home on your terms. It’s the convenience that keeps you from moving twice. And it’s the savings that come from having everything you need in one place. We’ve raised more than $160MM in equity capital from top-tier venture investors, including Norwest, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, Adams Street, Javelin, and LiveOak. Our leadership team includes real estate, mortgage, and technology experts.
Why Work With Us
There is great satisfaction in making homebuying, one of life’s major milestones, a more enjoyable experience. We do that through cross-functional collaboration, combining the depth and breadth of our expertise. We focus on what matters, saying no to the rest. And we live by the golden rule — for our clients, our agent partners and each other.
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