Senior Software Engineer

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, Quest Diagnostics, University of Washington, American Airlines, and TJX Companies.

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Job Summary

As part of this team, you will be an influential member helping us deliver Payscale’s mission to unlock an organization’s full potential through compensation intelligence. As a member of the Paycycle team you will accomplish this by providing comprehensive compensation planning functionality for our customers. As the product enters its next phase, we will be responsible for ensuring a scalable, performant, and maintainable platform that provides innovative features to make sure our clients can perform effective and well-informed compensation decisions.

What You'll Do

• You will translate business requirements and bug descriptions into working solutions while contributing to the system architecture and minimizing technical debt

• You will write high-quality, well-structured code that is maintainable and extensible

• You will work on a highly collaborative scrum team with skilled teammates

• You will provide technical advice and weigh in on technical decisions that impact other teams or the company at large by collaborating with stakeholders

• You enjoy selecting and using appropriate frameworks and learning new ones

• You will take initiative to identify and solve important problems, and coordinate with others on cross-cutting technical issues

• You will identify and proactively tackle technical debt before it grows into debt that requires significant up-front work to resolve

• Collaborate and partner as required with infrastructure, platform, product, DevOps and support teams

• Mentor peers on best practices and new technologies

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline and 5+ years of professional experience

• Full-stack experience in building well architected and scalable Java web applications using popular web application frameworks

• Experience in our key framework libraries: Spring, Spring Boot and Hibernate

• Experience in writing performant complex SQL queries and an understanding of relational databases

• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills

• Writing understandable and testable code while embracing unit and integration test concepts with experience in JUnit and Mockito

• Have the ability and desire to work with a team of people solving complex problems that often require independent research with minimal supervision

• Able to clearly articulate technical concepts to developers, managers, and less technical colleagues

Nice to Have

• Vaadin or similar Java based web frameworks (such as JSF or Wicket)

• SaaS and multi-tenant applications

• JavaScript

• AWS cloud solutions

• MariaDB

• Message queues / messaging frameworks

• Gatling or similar load testing frameworks

• Containerization

Location

Payscale Romania has an employee centric hybrid model that provides you the flexibility to do your best work in a space that supports you, while also finding time to collaborate in person in our office for the moments that matter.

In our hybrid model, employees can work from the location that works best for them when not in the office.

When you work from home, we recommend ensuring that you can meet the following technology, equipment and workspace requirements:

• High-Speed Internet - A stable broadband or fiber connection (satellite is highly discouraged) with a minimum speed of 100 Mbps in a dedicated workspace that has a reliable Wi-Fi signal.

• Device for Multifactor Authentication (MFA/2FA) - smartphone, tablet, etc.

When it matters (usually no more than a few times a year) we take the time to gather in larger groups for in-person events.

Payscale has employees across the US, Canada, UK, The Philippines and Romania however we are currently unable to hire in the Quebec Province, Northern Ireland, and Hawaii.

Benefits and Perks

All around awesome culture where together we strive to live our 5 values:

• Data informed decision making.

• Customer first. Always.

• Succeed together.

• Relentless about results. Obsessed with excellence.

• Lead the change. Shape the standard.

An open and inclusive environment where you’ll learn and grow through programs and resources like:

• Monthly company All Hands meetings

• Regular opportunities for executive leadership exposure through things like AMAs

• Access to continued learning & development opportunities

• Our commitment to a continuous feedback culture which allows us to drive performance and career growth

• A growing network of Employee Resource Groups

• Company sponsored volunteer hours

• And more!

Our more standard benefits

• Paid Time Off: 25 paid vacation days, plus eligible public holidays, 2 floating holidays annually and 2 additional Payscale holidays (Global Mental Health Day & US Independence Day)

• Medical Insurance: 100% employer-paid coverage for employees, plus premium coverage for 1 dependent (employee responsible for dependent taxes).

• Meal Vouchers: Monthly allowance, fully funded by Payscale.

• Pension: Employer contribution to a Pillar III plan.

• Life & Disability Insurance: 100% employer-paid coverage.

• Remote Work Stipend: Monthly stipend to support remote work and/or wellness expenses.

• Additional Leave: Paid leave entitlements under the Romanian Labor Code (e.g., marriage, bereavement).

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We embrace equal employment opportunity. Payscale is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs.

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.

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