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Senior Software Engineer

WHO WE ARE

Certinia (formerly FinancialForce) 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 the ability to run a connected services business, deliver with intelligence, and achieve business agility. Headquartered in San Jose, California with offices around the world, Certinia is backed by Haveli Investments, General Atlantic and Salesforce Ventures. For more information, visit www.certinia.com.

THE ROLE

As a Senior Software Engineer at Certinia, you will add deep technical expertise to a dynamic team of professionals, designing and developing software features that delivers value to our customers. You will work in a structured environment that encourages creativity and innovation, and is inspired by thought leading best practices such as Lean, Kanban and Agile methodology. Quality is our number one priority and you will work within a framework where our systems are continually tested, defects are prioritised, and fixed immediately. You will influence strategies and approaches to the design and writing of unit and system tests. You will make contributions to standards and guidelines that ensure solid and robust applications.

The ideal candidate will be a University Graduate with a Computer Sciences or related Honours Degree or higher or equivalent, with a strong and deep knowledge of complex software systems gained from a number of industry experiences with varying characteristics. The Software you develop will be used world wide with our customers being spread across multiple geographic locations and industries.

WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THIS ROLE

Partners with Product Managers and Product experts to help prioritise the product backlog
Designs and develops complex software functions comprised of multiple features following Certinia's framework of standards and practices.
Extensive use of multiple technologies, design and testing approaches
Considers functional requirements and designs effective testing strategies for unit and system tests
Coaches and mentors software engineers, including on other teams
Represents team in product, or sometimes company wide, technical discussions
Shares knowledge and supervises more junior team members.
Issues detected by continuous integration testing are fixed immediately as the number one priority.
Acts as a role model to others supporting company values and technical approaches
Learns, influences and keeps up with changes in software development tools and techniques used by the team or mandated by the company.
Supports design and planning activities helping with forecasting future work and deliverables
Effectively works with peers on team-oriented projects.
Resourcefulness in getting over problems and establishing clarity.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE

Experience of developing in Object Oriented languages, Java or C# or other related languages
Demonstrable experience of developing enterprise applications skilled at analysing and solving problems understanding of application architecture principles
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Understanding of data integration, Web Services and REST Services
Strong communication skills with the R&D team members
Resourcefulness in getting over problems and establishing clarity
Great communication skills

WHAT ELSE WOULD BE GREAT