Software Engineer – Salesforce

Job Summary

Delivers high quality software and technical solutions to meet product/platform needs. Works across the full stack and possesses a flexible mindset and passion for programming

• Produce high quality code to meet product/platform requirements
• Adheres to architecture standards and development best practices like Test-Driven development, code reviews, static code analysis and secure coding
• Writes technical user stories and ensures that non-functional requirements are met to ensure performance, scaling, resilience and maintainability of software/solutions
• Actively resolves defects and manages technical debt
• Develops unit tests to ensure good coverage and regression testing ability
• Assists in the development of automated tests and environment management scripts
• Practices Dev Ops methods like CI/CD, SDLC automation and proactive monitoring/telemetry
• Participates in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives to enable progress, and surface and resolve impediments
• Performs spikes and investigations to evaluate new tools/technologies
• Collaborates with the team to support end-to-end including design, development, QA, deployment and production support

Mandatory Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or 3 years of relevant developer experience
• 2-5 years of experience in coding, testing and application development in an agile environment, depending on education
• Practical experience using relevant modern programming languages and platforms (Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, Ruby, Groovy, Salesforce)
• 3 years of solution design and development experience building cloud-native applications using open-source frameworks like Spring
• 2 years of knowledge and experience with REST API design and implementation, and event driven architecture

Competencies

• Understands and implements code quality best practices
• Develops and automates unit tests. Understands the objectives, activities, and results of integration, end-to-end, and unit testing for services and components
• Able to create and manage code branches and versioned components using version control systems (Git or similar)
• Proficient with Dev Ops tools and concepts , including continuous integration, continuous deployment / delivery, configuration and containerization, infrastructure as code, and monitoring
• Possesses skills, experience, and proficiency with Agile practices (e.g. Lean, XP, Scrum, Kanban) and can apply these in one or more domains
• Experience building and deploying applications on a cloud platform such as AWS
• Researches the answers to questions independently, improves specific day-to-day work skills, and identifies key growth areas and topics of interest for self and others. Supports continuous learning efforts by engaging in feedback, research, and implementation efforts that directly support team strategies and processes
• Works and collaborates effectively with others, in multiple contexts
• Identifies business and technical problems; identifies and implements working solutions
• Communicates effectively and professionally; listens and speaks constructively in multiple contexts