Software Architect

at  PayScale

WHAT WE DO:

The Software Architecture team designs and develops software systems and applications. We guide the direction for architectural design choices, platforms, technical and coding standards. Software Architects work closely with software engineers, software engineering managers and product management to deliver high quality software solutions through coaching, mentorship, technical leadership and partnership with others. As architects, we set the technical direction of software development projects as well as build working POCs and prototypes to prove architectural designs through practice. Each major product initiative is supported by a Software Architect. We anticipate and plan for medium to long term technical work that needs to be done in the next 3 months to a year.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 6+ years software engineering experience
• You can clearly articulate technical concepts to developers, managers, and less technical colleagues.
• Experience serving as the technical lead on multiple high impact and high visibility projects.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers on designing and implementing challenging projects.
• Experience in building scalable data solutions (eg: data ingestion pipelines, data pipelines, big data, data stream processing)
• Experience in building cloud native backend services
• Hands on experience in migrating and designing applications for Azure AKS or Kubernetes clusters
• Hands on experience integrating 3rd party vendor systems in internal applications
• Experience designing and implementing micro services architecture
• Hands on experience designing and implementing Event Driven Architecture (e.g. Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Azure Service Bus, GCP PubSub)
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and cloud native solutions.
• Agile/SCRUM experience.
• Implementation knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming Design Patterns
• Experience building RESTful Web Services
• Experience managing 3rd party vendor technical relationships is a plus
• Hands on experience administering and configuring Azure AKS is a plus
• Hands on experience with tuning SQL Server Queries is a plus
• CI/CD experience is a plus

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Payscale gives employers and employees confidence to know the what and why behind pay. With our leading data, technology, and experience we make it easier for you to connect compensation to goals.
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 50 percent of the Fortune 500 in 198 countries, 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, Target, United Healthcare, Gainsight, eBay, and The Washington Post to make fair and appropriate pay decisions. To learn more, visit www.payscale.com

WHAT YOU DO:

As a Software Architect you will contribute to our industry leading software platforms. You will play a key role in building enterprise software used by companies to attract and retain top talent. The right individual for this role will be a motivated, energetic, collaborative and detail-oriented leader who takes utmost pride in their work, has a consistent track record of building performant and scalable SaaS applications and thrives by working in a high-growth environment using the latest software technologies.

FOR ROLES WITH COMPENSATION RANGES:

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position is $155,400-$233,00, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. This position is also eligible for an annual corporate bonus of 12%. If you are hired at Payscale, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors – we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider any internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base salary range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future & continued salary growth. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package (more information on benefits listed below).