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We are seeking passionate, high performing senior software engineers to join our growing Paycycle Engineering team.
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.
As a Senior Software Engineer:
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
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
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
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