At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
Why do you want to join our team?
Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs-creating application services that help the worlds leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and support.
But our success isnt driven solely by what we do. We also care deeply about how we do it. At F5, our culture is how we live, every single day. And its producing extraordinary results-not only for our customers, but also for our employees. We understand that your life is about more than just work, so were committed to a culture that supports your whole life.
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to build and support the most exciting missions in the world! You get the adventure and independence of working at a start-up without any of the financial risks because you are supported by a growing Fortune 1000 technology company.
What will you do?
Our Software Development Engineer provides software development support by analyzing business requirements to design and develop appropriate systems solutions according to specifications. They provide technical expertise in evaluating, designing, developing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting systems and procedures that are cost-effective and improve work efficiency. Additionally, the Software Development Engineer partners with Enterprise and Solution Architects to ensure that the application meets company service level standards and roadmap requirements
Development responsibilities
Analyze and translate business requirements and acceptance criteria into functional and non-function system requirements
Design reliable/scalable/reusable/future-proof technical solutions to the business requirements/specifications/acceptance criteria and can effectively present your technical solutions to the review board in the format of POC or flow diagrams
Write technical design documents when needed and document complex solutions to share with your peers
Develop and maintain new and existing functionality on enterprise Salesforce platform applications. This includes but is not limited to creating backend custom objects, fields, manage user permissions and declarative tasks
Integrate Salesforce with other internal or external applications which can be hosted on-premises or in the cloud
Understand the Salesforce development best practices and knows when to use out-of-the-box functionalities/capabilities and when to use the customized approaches in solving a business requirement
Manage CI/CD build and release pipelines. Resolve code deployment issues of lower environments and code conflict in the local development environment or the remote repo
Contribute to the scrum team by involving in Grooming/Planning/Retrospective/Scrum meetings, especially providing consistent and reliable LOE estimate
Work with the enterprise architects and the solution architects to design a technical solution that meets the companys service level standard, security requirement and minimizes the dependency of the upstream teams and the impact to the downstream teams
Work with the product owner to understand the acceptance criteria and provide alternatives to any unattainable asks
Partner with Site Reliability Engineers to deploy code to the higher environments (Stage and Production)
Provide onboarding assistance to new team members
Other responsibilities
Responsible for upholding F5s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
Provide excellent customer service to IT internal and business partner customers
Perform other related duties as assigned.
What do you need to be successful in this role?
Strong skills in communicating with different roles in a scrum team.
Demonstrate knowledge of Salesforce Sales or Services or Community applications. Good understanding in Salesforce data security model and working experience in setting up data security via configuration and coding alike
Experience developing in Salesforce technologies such as Apex, Triggers, Lightning Design, and Visualforce pages
Ability to design, config, test, debug, and maintain Salesforce platform. Understand when to use configuration and when to use custom code
Experience with Salesforce Lightning Aura Components, Lightning Web Components is a plus
Experience using Salesforce data tools (Data Loader, Visual Studio Code, Excel Connector, Demand Tools, Eclipse Force.com IDE)
Experience in web development using JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and working experience in developing Salesforce Aura and/or LWC components is a plus
Understand the relational database in general and the Salesforce data model.
Experience in using the developer console, workbench, Heroku, Postman, and other development tools
Experience with FinancialForce PSA is a plus
Demonstrate knowledge of CI/CD process with working experience of building CI/CD build and release pipelines
Experience with Copado is a plus
Working knowledge of Agile methodology
Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
What will we look for on your resume?
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, MIS or related field; and/or equivalent work experience
3+ years of development experience in Salesforce Services or Sales or Community
Hands-on experience with Salesforce declarative programming
Experience with databases and basic SQL skills required
Experience in multiple software development methodologies/lifecycles required
Salesforce Certifications
Our values:
At F5 we live and breathe our core values, Excellence, Integrity, Collaboration, Customer Loyalty, Profitable Growth, Innovation, Employee Success, and Diversity. We help each other achieve our goals, value the diversity of ideas different backgrounds can bring, emphasize teamwork over rock-stars, work hard and most of all have fun
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Yello/Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.
