Associate Software Engineer

Job Description:

Associate Software Engineer

Harrogate / Hybrid - 2 days in Harrogate/ 3 days work from home

Certinia (formerly Financial Force) delivers a Services-as-a-Business platform that powers and connects all aspects of services operations, from services estimation and delivery to customer success management and financial planning and accounting. The company's Professional Services Automation (PSA), Customer Success, and ERP solutions—delivered on Salesforce’s leading cloud platform—provide services businesses with the intelligence and agility to deliver high-quality services, elevate customer experiences and accelerate growth.

Headquartered in San Jose, California with offices around the world, Certinia is backed by Haveli Investments, General Atlantic and Salesforce Ventures.

As an Associate Software Engineer you will work in a software development team learning how to build and maintain Certinia applications using the full technology stack.

You will mainly interact with your own team, which consists of 4‑5 software engineers, an engineering team lead, a product manager, a user experience designer, and a content creator.

Working with supervision you will be involved in the design of software solutions, following Kanban methodologies. You will write code to create new features, extend existing features, fix customer‑reported issues and fix internally detected issues. You will manually test your own and others' work. You will be involved in code reviews within your team, where through identifying issues and asking questions, the team will strive for high‑quality code.

You will be involved in product area reviews, where the team demonstrates their completed work to stakeholders.

During your first few months, you will combine hands‑on development work with training, following a learning path that helps you develop the skills needed to become a proficient engineer working on the Salesforce platform. You will learn about and follow Certinia’s software development standards.

You will actively collaborate and will continuously seek to make improvements to how you and the team work and make suggestions in review meetings.

• Being involved in the design of software solutions
• Following Certinia’s coding standards
• Writing code to deliver new capabilities and extend existing capabilities
• Diagnosing defects and resolving them
• Designing and writing automated tests
• Manually testing yours and others code
• Peer reviewing code
• Seeking to improve methodology
• Supporting colleagues when needed

• Working knowledge of programming languages
• An enthusiasm and appetite for well‑written code
• An ability to collaborate in a team
• An awareness of enterprise software frameworks
• An awareness of architectural and software patterns
• Good communication skills
• Creativity and resourcefulness

• Degree level in Computer Science or similar subject
• Experience developing on the Salesforce platform