Senior Software Engineer

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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 top companies in the U.S. and businesses like Cintas, ZoomInfo, Chipotle, Brookdale Senior Living, Ohio State University, American Airlines, and TJX Companies.

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Job Summary

We are looking for a motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team and contribute to the evolution of our SaaS applications. You'll work across the entire stack—developing responsive front-end interfaces and robust back-end systems using modern technologies and frameworks. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and performant solutions that empower our customers.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Software Engineer, your day-to-day responsibilities may include:

• Own and build data-driven product applications end-to-end, from design and implementation through deployment and production operation.
• Take responsibility for cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and production readiness, with support from the DevOps team when needed.
• Develop and maintain user interfaces using React 18+.
• Build and consume REST APIs using Node.js with TypeScript.
• Architect data models and access patterns, and efficiently consuming data from existing data-processing services and relational databases (Postgres, MySQL).
• Drive rapid prototyping, fast iteration cycles, and evolving MVPs into production-grade systems.
• Actively leverage and shape AI-assisted development workflows, including automation for code generation, testing, documentation, and developer productivity.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt, architectural risks, and scalability bottlenecks.
• Ensure high code quality through unit tests, integration tests, and strong engineering standards.
• Debugging issues systematically across the full stack, including live production environments.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers, and participating in pragmatic Agile processes.

What We're Looking For

• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• 5+ years of experience building backend systems with Node.js and TypeScript.
• 5+ years of experience with modern front-end frameworks, specifically React.
• Strong experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures.
• Strong understanding of data model architecture and access patterns for data-intensive applications.
• Comfortable with rapid prototyping, fast iteration cycles, and MVP-to-production ownership.
• Solid understanding of asynchronous processing, messaging, and event-driven systems (SNS/SQS, EventBridge, Kafka, etc).
• Hands-on experience owning cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines, preferably on AWS.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability, and production operations.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes).
• Proven track record of writing clean, testable, and maintainable code.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or integrating AI-powered internal tools or automation to improve developer productivity or software quality.
• Awareness of UI/UX best practices and accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG).

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 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-confidence-gap/359815/ and imposter syndrome https://fortune.com/2024/06/21/high-functioning-achievers-imposter-syndrome-career-ladder/ 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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