Job Description

Job Description: 

What We Do: The Data Ingest Team focuses on building automated, performant, scalable, and flexible solutions to loading client data from a variety of sources. The team is central to crafting solutions around ingesting data from external systems, as well as supporting changes to existing solutions in concert with new features. 

What You Do: You will be crafting, building, and improving our systems so that clients are able to import and update their data in an expedient and scalable manner. 

Day-in-the-Life: As a Software Engineer I, a typical day may include the following: 

• Providing exceptional service to our internal and external stakeholders. 

• Partnering with Product Managers and fellow Engineers to help provide a technical path forward for upcoming initiatives with novel, innovative solutions. 

• Writing performant code that permits data ingestion at-scale. 

• Improving and supporting our existing microservices and integrations. 

• Providing bi-weekly on-call services should product issues arise

First Year in Role:  

By your third month, partnering with your teammates, you will have completed a couple handfuls of enhancements and feature changes. Your changes will be live in production making an impact on our consumer users and company metrics.  

By your sixth month, you have completely ramped up on the team with the ability to pick up most tasks on the sprint board and complete it on your own from start to finish.  

After one year at Payscale, you are fully integrated into the engineering organization and you are an authority in many of the projects, services, and processes that we own. You are mentoring your teammates, proposing designs, and offering innovative ways to deliver the best products.  

Qualifications: 

• 1+ years experience with the following languages and frameworks: Python, React, Node.js. Experience with pandas and celery is a plus! 

• 1+ years experience with the following data systems: PostgreSQL, MySQL 

• Strong foundational knowledge of object oriented programming principles. 

• A passion to learn new languages, frameworks, and technologies. 

• Experience writing RESTful APIs. 

• Experience with cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure. 

• Success in crafting readable and testable code, embracing unit tests and integration test concepts. 

• Working with a team of people on engaging problems which often times require independent research excites you. 

• Your problem solving and critical thinking skills are strong.

Tools: 

• We deliver solutions using Python, PostgreSQL, and React. 

• We deploy our code using TeamCity and Octopus Deploy.

Benefits & Perks – The Highlights: 

All around awesome culture where together we strive to: 

• Pursue excellence every day 

• Create customer value 

• Compete to win (and lose!) as a team

As part of our culture of transparency and commitment to employee engagement, we have several programs and resources such as: 

• Regular virtual company meetings 

• Coffee chats 

• Table for 4 Executive conversation 

• Spirit Week 

• Pulsing tools for continuous conversations to drive performance and career growth 

• Strengths based tools designed to help employees engage with peers and managers, supported through a program called StandOut 

• Access to top notch learning courses for all employees through LinkedIn Learning 

• As well as constant re-evaluation of what our employees need to be successful at work!

Our more standard benefits include: 

• Flexible Paid Time Off program – most employees average around 3 weeks per year 

• 14 paid holidays including Independence Week, Juneteenth and World Mental Health Day 

• 3 comprehensive health plans to fit your unique needs; plans have up to 100% company-paid premium coverage for employee Medical, Dental and Vision 

• Access to Premera’s Healthcare Services including an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), 24-hour Nurse Hotline, Telehealth (Doctor on Demand), Talkspace, and other virtual care options 

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations towards: Medical, Dependent Care, Parking, and Transit 

• Company Paid Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance 

• Comprehensive Paid Parental / Adoption Leave program 

• 401k program with fully vested, immediate company match

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. 

Additional Information

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