Multiple way of deleting Custom Timer job

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When you develop a custom SharePoint Timer Jobs sometimes you may need to delete junk jobs created by deployment times. This article will explain you how to remove custom timer job.

About Timer Job:

A timer job runs in a specific Windows service for SharePoint 2013. Timer jobs perform infrastructure tasks for the Timer service, such as clearing the timer job history and recycling the Timer service. Timer jobs also perform tasks for web applications, such as sending email alerts.

       _{// Uncomment the method below to handle the event raised before a feature is deactivated.
        public override void FeatureDeactivating(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
        {
            SPSite site = properties.Feature.Parent as SPSite;
            // delete the job   
            foreach (SPJobDefinition job in site.WebApplication.JobDefinitions)
            {
                if (job.Name == List_JOB_NAME)
                    job.Delete();
            }
        }}       

Find timer job ID by List_JOB_NAME using command.

_{Get-SPTimerJob | where { $_.name -like "*<List_JOB_NAME>*" } |ft id,name}

Set job to a variable
_{$job = Get-SPTimerJob -id <GUID>}

And delete it.
_{$job.Delete()}