Senior Software Engineer

Overview

As an integral part of our agile development team, you will develop and maintain our customer-facing web application. Using your analytical and problem-solving skills, you will work independently to solve complex problems. In our agile development process, you will work collaboratively with stakeholders and contribute ideas toward continuous process improvement. You will find opportunity to use and grow your leadership abilities.

What You Do:

• You will translate business requirements and bug reports into working solutions while contributing to the system architecture and minimizing technical debt
• You will write automated unit tests while developing code and maintain high code test coverage. You enjoy selecting and using appropriate frameworks and learning new ones
• You will write high-quality, well-structured code that is maintainable and extensible
• You will craft innovative features and solutions for our business facing Software as a Service platform
• You will work on a highly collaborative agile team with skilled teammates
• You will help us revolutionize the way compensation is measured, analyzed and predicted
• You will tackle performance and scale challenges
• You will build dynamic UI to help our customers analyze their data
• You will Partner with our architectural and platform teams
• You will Mentor peers on best-practices and new technologies

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline and at least 5 years of professional experience
• Web application development: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
• Framework libraries such as React, Bootstrap, Angular, Express
• Database persistence and SQL (Postgres preferred)
• Server-side REST API development using Node.js (preferred), Java or .NET
• Unit testing frameworks (Mocha, JUnit)
• Linux (CentOS/RedHat)
• Source code management (git preferred)
• You are able to explain technical concepts to developers, project managers, and technical managers
• You have the ability and desire to work with a team of people solving complex problems that often require independent research with minimal supervision
• You have excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills

Experience and knowledge desirable:

• SaaS and multi-tenant applications
• AWS cloud ecosystem
• Docker, Kafka, Redis
• Scripting languages (tcl etc)
• Elastic

Compensation 

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position is $140,000- $211,300, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. This position is also eligible for an annual corporate bonus of 10%. If you are hired at Payscale, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors – we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider any internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base salary range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future & continued salary growth. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package (more information on benefits listed below). 

Company Description 

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