Software Engineer II

About Payscale

Payscale is the original compensation innovator for organizations who want to scale their business with pay and transform their largest investment into their greatest advantage. With decades of innovation in sourcing reputable data and developing AI-powered tools, Payscale delivers actionable insights that turn pay from a cost to a catalyst. Its suite of solutions — Payfactors, Marketpay, and Paycycle — empower 65% of the top companies in the U.S. and businesses like Panasonic, ZoomInfo, Chipotle, AccentCare, University of Washington, American Airlines, and TJX Companies.

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As an integral part of our agile development team, you will develop and maintain our customer-facing web application, focusing on the front end. 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 plenty of 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 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

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline and at least 3 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)

Equal Opportunity Employer:

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