Software Engineer VI-Lead Salesforce Developer

About the position

Spectrum's Product and Technology team creates, develops, and operates the nation's fastest mobile service, most reliable Internet service, most viewed live TV app, and the most advanced WiFi, serving millions of users and devices. We are transforming the next era of connectivity and entertainment experiences. Our goal in the Software Development Information Technology organization is to help Spectrum succeed by securely and rapidly delivering the best and most efficient technology in support of our business. We do this through a mix of delivery teams, operations functions, and corporate shared services like Architecture, End-to-End Test and Security. The Software Engineer VI will work with technical teams to create software solutions that use prevailing technologies and improve the customers' experience while adhering to business and technical requirements. Develop, modify, enhance, and implement software systems designed to support business initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
• Participate in the design of dependent systems, e.g., up/downstream APIs, clients, data stores, CI/CD Pipelines.
• Design and implement new functionality that is testable and performant with no oversight or guidance.
• Determine methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel.
• Understand the applicable technical organization's vision and goals and applies understanding to assist in the creation of the organization's roadmap.
• Analyze and evaluate different products in the market and identifies their pros and cons.
• Proactively maintain knowledge of and keep up to date on technical and industry standards.
• May develop software with no assistance to overcome roadblocks and proactively identify roadblocks and determine their impact to the roadmap.
• Triage escaped defects and lead RCA activities.
• Resolve system integration issues.
• Lead triage of critical production issues and manage hotfixes for those defects.
• Use time and resources effectively, prioritizing work, establishing and meeting timelines without oversight, and delivering multiple tasks at the same time.
• Close technical debts and visualize technology roadmaps.
• Provide LOE on multiple interconnected projects / features or an Epic level.
• Responsible for technical requirements and overall technical design documentation.
• Cut release branches and provide deployment artifacts to operations.
• Enforce usage of approved code patterns and best practices across their application domain.
• Identify performance improvement possibilities with dependent systems.
• Improve application performance and scalability, resilience and high availability.
• Collaborate with other groups in the organization like architecture, testing, operations, DBAs, and data center teams to identify and solve technical problems.
• Showcase multiple interconnected projects / features or an Epic to senior technical leadership and the business.
• Mentor Software Developers I-V. Participate in candidate interviews.
• Build and maintain effective working relations with their peers, own team, and other Charter organizations.
• Provide technical consulting to other internal groups and acts as a technical SME for the organization.

Requirements

• 4-6+ years of experience with database management systems.
• 4-6+ years of experience in coding, testing and designing software.
• 4-6+ years of experience with software development methodologies.
• BA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of one major programming language/tool.
• Demonstrated knowledge of coding language and syntax, usage of functions and object-oriented patterns.
• Demonstrated knowledge of environments, docker images, container runtimes, and cloud native app development.
• Demonstrated knowledge of dependent systems, e.g., up/downstream APIs, clients, data stores.
• Demonstrated knowledge of design patterns and software architecture patterns.

Nice-to-haves

• Use Apex to execute flow and transaction control statements on Salesforce servers in conjunction with calls to the API.
• Use Lightning Component, Visualforce, and JavaScript UI frameworks for developing single page applications for desktop and mobile in the Salesforce application.
• Use web services, including SOAP API, REST API, Bulk API, and Metadata API, to integrate Salesforce with systems and create APIs that can be consumed by external applications.
• Use SOQL and SOSL Salesforce database languages to search Salesforce data using field based and text-based search queries.
• Responsible for working with PMO for project planning and task allocation, and overseeing the development process, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within scope.
• Enforcing coding standards, conducting thorough code reviews, and setting a high bar for code quality.
• Effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and QA engineers.
• Developing and implementing the technical strategy for projects, including the selection of appropriate tools and technologies.
• Identifying and mitigating technical risks and ensuring that the project adheres to security and compliance standards.
• Encouraging and facilitating documentation of code, APIs, and technical decisions to promote knowledge sharing within the team.