Engineer II
Description
Engineer II (SX)
The Company
Kantata takes professional services automation to a new level, giving people-powered businesses the clarity, control, and confidence they need to elevate organizational performance throughout the project lifecycle. The Kantata Cloud for Professional Services™ is helping over 2,000 firms in more than 100 countries focus on and optimize their most important asset: their people.
Kantata is well-capitalized, hiring, and growing our loyal and diversified customer base at breakneck speed. Most importantly, we have a clear vision of where we’re going and how to get there. (Hint: It involves you.) Did we mention that Kantata is also an awesome place to work? You’ll have the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment with a team that loves what they do. A talented team, great perks, and an amazing culture = an employee-rated Best Place to Work!
About the Role
As a Salesforce Developer at Kantata, you’ll be responsible for the ongoing design, build, and maintenance of the application components that make up the Kantata SX solution. You’ll be part of a highly-agile team to support the market with new feature development, maintaining current builds, and working collaboratively with peers to solve interesting challenges in the market.
As a Salesforce Developer at Kantata, you’ll be responsible for the ongoing design, build, and maintenance of the application components that make up the Kantata SX solution. You’ll be part of a highly-agile team to support the market with new feature development, maintaining current builds, and working collaboratively with peers to solve interesting challenges in the market.
Kantata is a SaaS product built using Salesforce technology and delivered on the Force.com platform. Kantata's SX and OX products are the leaders in the Professional Services management space. Kantata SX is uniquely positioned to serve enterprise customers who are using Salesforce at a foundational level within their operations stack.
About the Opportunity
This unique, hands-on role involves working closely with the Kantata Product Management team to scope, plan, design, and develop new Kantata PSA features as part of a sprint-based delivery model. You’ll be influential on the team by owning, shaping, and developing functionality to satisfy the enhancements raised by our customers and features from our product backlog. Working cross-functionally, you’ll also investigate and resolve issues escalated from our client support team; identifying root cause and engineering fixes and changes, when needed.
Goals and Responsibilities
Owning aspects of our product solution, you’ll work on ensuring we can meet our ongoing commitment to customers to build and release innovative and engaging new features and enhancements. You’ll be supported by a mature and experienced development team and empowered to make large impacts in the hands-on development of our application. Ownership through each build is established with a full-stack focus and you’ll work exclusively with the Force.com platform and other Salesforce technologies, such as Visualforce, Lightning components, Apex and custom objects along with Javascript, HTML, and CSS. Our next addition to the team will be key to supporting the development of the overall solution architecture, with a focus on performance and process improvement. Success will stem from:
- Working with product managers to analyze requirements, understand and develop user stories, and designing features and functionality that solve the needs of our customers
- Taking responsibility for the end-to-end design and delivery of key functional areas in our app, becoming a subject matter expert
- Contributing to Kantata’s patterns and practices within the Salesforce platform to deliver and maintain unique product features
- Delivering optimized features that can scale to the needs of our enterprise clients using efficient UI, Apex, and SOQL design
- Delivering rapid prototyping that quickly envisions and credibly proposes solutions to complex challenges
Your Profile
You’re a strong engineer with a background in Salesforce development and performance optimization. Solving problems is your motivator and you influence by example. You’ve got experience in designing and implementing across all layers of web-based SaaS solutions and enjoy a truly-agile full-stack environment. Defining and contributing to engineering best practices within a dynamic organization, where you’re heard and trusted, interests you and establishes a setting for you to thrive. Our newest developer will bring with them:
- Intermediate-level experience in software development on the force.com platform
- Experience and comfortability within agile development approaches such as estimating, TDD, and working within sprint cycles
- Clear communication through technical design conversation, documentation, and presentations
- Confidence in facing unique or unprecedented development challenges and navigating problems without predefined solutions
Our Philosophy
We know every company can be successful with the right technology and when people are at the core. We believe that we’re better together - that working hand-in-hand brings the best thoughts to the table and creates an environment of learning and growth. Here, you’ll enjoy:
- An intentionally engaging and collaborative culture - ditch the silo!
- Strong work-life balance that’s a true focus of the company
- The chance to learn from some of the best people in the business
- A vibrant, collaborative and devoted team, who still makes time for fun
At Kantata, we strive to create an inclusive workplace that upholds the dignity of all people. We value, respect and celebrate everyone’s unique strengths from all different walks of life. As we continue to cultivate diversity within the company, our product (and people!) innovation continues to flourish.
Kantata is an Equal Opportunity Employer.