Hybrid Principal Software Engineer

at Salesforce

• Job title: Principal Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $211,500 - $306,600 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Angular, Ember.js, Java, JavaScript, Jenkins, JUnit, React, Selenium, SOAP, SQL, Visualforce
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce developing applications for M&A and Operations. Leading technical efforts while collaborating with world-class engineers and architects.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to our M&A teams as well as our operations team.
• You will be responsible for developing the backend architecture and writing highly scalable internal web applications using Force.com technologies.
• You must have an excellent background in Java or Force.com programming and application design, and an excellent understanding of Javascript frameworks, CSS, XML, and HTML.
• You will be responsible for architecting and developing through phases of the development lifecycle and be well versed in full stack implementation.
• You will use your experience to work with team members to develop new features, enhance existing features, underlying software components and frameworks.
• You should write code that others can understand, support, maintain and expand, and provide team members with direction on development projects.
• We're looking for people with a special mix of technical ability, curiosity, and an analytical mind to ensure every line of code is of the highest quality.
• You will be responsible to adapt quickly, motivate people, instill accountability and achieve results.
• You must possess good oral and written communication/documentation skills and be able to interact with team members to deliver fast and with reliable code quality.

Requirements

• 10 + years experience programming with Force.com (Apex, Visualforce & Lightning) and Java technologies
• Experience understanding of OO design, programming and MVC framework
• Experience programming HTML, CSS, and Javascript frameworks (Angular.js or Ember.js or React)
• Experience in data models, database design and relational database languages (SQL or SOQL)
• Experience developing in an enterprise software engineering environment such as source code control, IDE, CI/CD frameworks (Git, Eclipse, Jenkins)
• Provide technical leadership to junior software engineers and ability to mentor and develop junior team members
• Ability to help out on recruiting and attract best in class software engineers
• Knowledge and hands-on implementation skills of Web Services (SOAP and REST)
• Working experience on driving quality practices within organization
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodology
• Proactively identify risks & mitigate/resolve them
• Effectively communicate status and risk to the team and manager
• 8+ years of experience in Quality Engineering developing test framework using an OOP language, such as Apex, Java, C#, etc.
• 8+ years experience in designing and implementing automated test suite that are fast, robust, and maintainable using Java-based tools such as Selenium Web Driver, JUnit, and Apex
• Document test plans and publish test results with the goal of continuous improvement in code quality, test coverage (functionality and code)
• Ability to lead and influence the design approach to new applications and features
• Ability to lead, participate and contribute to product code reviews, test strategy & test plan reviews
• Diagnose, track and manage quality issues to resolution
• Understanding of various user based security models and experience with performance tuning
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills
• Effectively communicate status and risk to the team and manager
• Effectively contribute, participate and influence in Program Increment (PI) Planning and Agile scrum rituals

Benefits

• time off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• employee stock purchasing program