Company Description

PayScale is the world leader in modern compensation software. We believe data-informed discussions about compensation benefit both employers and employees and that greater pay transparency promotes equity, engagement and employee retention. We are bringing the dark art of compensation into the light by helping individuals understand the right pay for their position and more than 7,000 businesses retain and manage their largest investment: their people.

We’re transforming the compensation industry and are looking to bring on talented professionals like you with diverse perspectives. At PayScale, we acknowledge and value our differences as well as our combined strengths. We want all employees, regardless of their background, to feel respected personally and professionally. We foster a working environment that generates new ideas, promotes ownership and experimentation and encourages highly motivated individuals to be truly creative. Are you bright, tenacious, and inventive? If so, PayScale may be the perfect place for you to grow your career!

Job Description

Are you excited to support over a million users a week and give them an amazing experience to come back to? Join us on Consumer Services team where you will work on services, APIs, data processes that power the PayScale consumer experience.

Do you love writing code that performs at scale and enjoy solving tough problems? If so, then we want to hear from you. Our focus is on empowering employers, employees, and job seekers with compellingly presented real-time data. Come to a team where your ideas are valued, your voice is heard and your work has immediate impact.

Responsibilities

• Drive key decisions on architecture and implementation of services and data processes required to support millions of users.
• Innovate to keep the bar higher for the team and the engineer organization as a whole.
• Provide quality and thoughtful feedback on peer code reviews.
• Collaborate with product managers, data analysts and other engineers to show our users meaningful data.
• Mentor engineers and share your knowledge and takeaways with the organization.

Qualifications

• You have 4+ years experience in software development.
• You have previous experience with C# or other OOP languages.
• You have experience launching high performance and scalable services and applications into cloud platforms.
• You have working knowledge of relational and no-SQL databases.
• You have familiarity/experience with unit testing and crafting testable code. 
• 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.

Additional Information

Benefits & Perks – The Highlights:

• Unlimited Paid Time Off policy
• 10 paid holidays AND Summer office closure the entire week of July 4th
• Amazing Medical/Vision/Dental/Prescription coverage: 100% company-paid premiums for employees; 50% for eligible partners and dependents
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations towards: Medical, Dependent Care, Parking, and Transit
• Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, and Company-paid Life Insurance
• Competitive Maternity and Paternity Leave, and onsite Mother’s Room
• 401k with company match, vests immediately
• Onsite bike storage, lockers, showers, and clothes dryer
• Ergo friendly chairs and sitting-standing desks
• Company-hosted happy hours every Friday afternoon
• Fido Fridays (our canine colleagues join us the first Friday of every month. WOOF!)

Equal Opportunity Employer: PayScale provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. PayScale complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.