About Payscale

As the industry leader in compensation management, Payscale is on a mission to help job seekers, employees, and businesses get pay right and to make sustainable fair pay a reality. Empowering more than 65% of the Fortune 500, Payscale provides a combination of diverse and dynamic data sources, experienced compensation services, and scalable software to enable organizations such as Angel City Football Club, Panasonic, Mars Global, eBay, American Airlines and PetSmart to make fair and appropriate pay decisions.

Pay is powerful. To learn more, visit www.payscale.com.

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. Payscale has employees across the US, Canada, UK and currently hiring in Romania.

The Role

We are seeking a passionate and high-performing Lead Software Engineer to join our growing Software Engineering Team. In this role, you will play a critical part in designing and building scalable, high-performance SaaS applications that empower companies to attract and retain top talent. Your expertise will directly impact our mission of empowering people and employers with the strategic power of compensation.

If you thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and take pride in building scalable, reliable, and secure software, we want to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will:

• Collaborate with the Software Architecture team to design and develop software solutions for a high-performance SaaS application, ensuring high security, availability, scalability, and observability.
• Lead architectural discussions and execute designs that reflect collaborative team input.
• Act as a team lead during scrum meetings and lead the discussions on technical solutions and systems architecture.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, QA, and Data Operations teams to deliver robust solutions.
• Serve as the primary technical expert for one product area, representing the company in technical discussions.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain cloud native RESTful microservices
• Perform code and design reviews, drive the adoption of modern software engineering practices.
• Mentor and grow engineers within your team and across the organization.
• Implement monitoring strategies and work with the platform team to improve system observability.
• Drive continuous improvements in engineering practices, focusing on delivering reliable, high-quality solutions.

What We’re Looking For

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Experience serving as a technical lead on multiple high-impact, high-visibility projects.
• Proficiency in writing complex SQL queries and stored procedures for relational databases.
• Hands on experience with tuning SQL Server Queries
• Expertise in designing and implementing microservices architecture.
• Proficiency with Event-Driven Architectures (e.g., Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, AWS Kinesis, Kafka, GCP PubSub).
• Hands-on experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and cloud-native solutions.
• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and design patterns.
• Experience developing and consuming RESTful Web Services.
• Experience in building cloud native backend services
• Hands on experience in migrating and designing applications for Azure AKS or Kubernetes clusters
• Agile/SCRUM development experience.
• Hands on experience administering and configuring Azure AKS is a plus
• Experience with designing and building solutions for semantic search using vector embeddings is a plus

Technical Skills

You’ll stand out if you have experience with:

• Backend: C#/.NET (latest version)
• Frontend: Angular, Typescript, JavaScript
• Data: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Snowflake
• Messaging and Integration: Azure Service Bus
• Cloud: Azure experience preferred, AWS experience accepted
• Testing Tools: Mockito, EasyMock, JUnit, TestNG
• Containerization: Azure AKS, YAML, Docker, Tilt, Lens, Rancher Desktop

Benefits and Perks

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

• Respect every individual, work as a team
• Be Customer first, customer centric
• Have a Bias towards action
• Commit to excellence (we give our best everyday)
• Make Data driven decisions

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!

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.

If you have a disability or impairment and need assistance with the application process, please email [email protected] for support.

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