Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SkySlope is a company that has grown significantly since its inception in 2011, now supporting close to 300,000 users across 5,000 offices nationwide. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop and improve their software, ensuring high quality and stability while fostering innovation and collaboration within the team.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for developing, maintaining and deploying improved and new software:
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
- Manage his or her own project priorities, deadlines and deliverables, while at the same time understanding how their efforts, along with the efforts of their teammates, must be coordinated to ensure predictability
- Actively participates in reviews of deliverables to ensure high quality and consistency
- Capable of bringing any story/task to fruition with limited need for consultation of team members (although sharing knowledge of such is important)
- Contribute to the overall architecture of systems, often working across multiple teams within the department
- Collaborates with peers in designing highly scalable systems
- Responsible for contributing to team success and being an effective collaborator:
- Facilitates and leads discussions around processes and solutions
- Contributes to technology decisions
- Contributes to sprint deliverables
- Collaborates with team members and other departments
- Assists and collaborates in efforts to ensure team predictability
- Continuous learning and building expertise:
- Increase domain knowledge about SkySlope and our clients
- Continued learning around technologies that SkySlope utilizes
- Facilitates knowledge and growth of peers by learning new & better ways to do things, and mentoring their peers via such knowledge
- Exploration into better ways of doing things
- Presenting to the ARB and/or holding L&Ls are expected and encouraged
- Effective communicator:
- Communicates honestly, openly, and respectfully with everyone
- Mentors peers and able to provide constructive feedback to others
- Able to contribute to overall goals of the team, even when differences in opinion or strategy exist
- Assists in resolving differences in tactics and / or approach, despite differing opinions and experiences
- Able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This often involves working with executives or higher level personnel in the company
Skills
- 7+ years of development, or commensurate experience
- High School Diploma
- Languages: C#, Javascript, Golang
- Runtimes: .NET CLR, Node
- Frameworks & Libraries: React, Angular, Vue.js, LoopBack
- Unit testing practices, frameworks and libraries
- DB: MS SQL Server, MySQL, Aurora, PostgreSQL, DynamoDb, MongoDb, and optimization of queries and database engines. This includes setting up alerts & monitoring as well as being responsible for hunting down any anomalies
- HTML, CSS
- JSON
- Source control (Git, TFS, SVN, etc)
- Continuous Integration (CI) platforms (e.g., CodePipeline, Jenkins) including setting up and terraforming pipelines for the team
- Taking ownership of the effort to support & troubleshoot system operations
- Cloud computing platform experience (eg. AWS)
- Usage of AWS Services (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3)
- Experience with capture of application usage metrics (e.g., Google Analytics, New Relic, Amplitude, DataDog)
Benefits
- Medical Insurance – Company pays flat dollar amount towards premium
- There are 3 plan options
- Our Medical Insurance plans are provided through United Healthcare
- The United Healthcare HMO is only offered to California residents
- Eligibility begins 1st of the month following date of hire
- Dental Insurance – Company pays 75% of monthly premium only on Base Plan
- This PPO plan is administered through Principal
- Eligibility begins 1st of the month following date of hire
- Vision Insurance – Company pays 100% of monthly premium
- This plan is administered through Principal (VSP choice network)
- Eligibility begins 1st of the month following date of hire
- Basic Life and AD&D Insurance (with additional Voluntary Plans available) – Company paid plan with a guarantee issue amount of $25,000.
- Plan is administered through Principal
- Eligibility begins 1st of the month following date of hire
- Voluntary Short & Long Term Disability Insurance Plans – Optional plans to help protect your financial well-being.
- Plan is administered through Principal
- Eligibility begins 1st of the month following date of hire
- Voluntary Accident insurance- Optional plans available to purchase that pays you a cash benefit to help with your expenses if you or a covered family member is injured due to an accident.
- Voluntary Hospital Indemnity- Optional plans available to purchase that pays you a cash benefit to help with your expenses if you or a covered family member is admitted to the hospital
- Voluntary Critical Illness- Optional plans available to purchase to help with your expenses if you or a covered family member is diagnosed with a covered critical illness.
- Flexible Spending Account – A tax savings account you put money into that you use to pay for certain out-of-pocket health care and dependent care costs.
- Plan is administered through Discovery Benefits
- Eligibility begins 1st of the month following date of hire, if you sign up by the 25th of the month
- Health Savings Account (HSA)– A tax savings account for employees enrolled in a High Deductible Health Plan. You can put money into this account to pay for certain out-of-pocket health care costs
- Plan is administered through Discovery Benefits
- Eligibility begins 1st of the month following date of hire, if you sign up by the 25th of the month
- Must be enrolled in the UHC HDHP/HSA medical plan with SkySlope to be eligible
- SkySlope contributes $300 to an individual HSA and $600 to a family HSA
- 401(k) Plan – Company will match $0.50 on each $1.00 contributed up to the first 6% of eligible earnings
- Plan is administered through Principal
- Eligibility begins first pay date after 90 days of employment
- Auto-enrollment after eligibility at 3% of gross annual earnings
- Defer between 1% and 40% of eligible contribution
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan - Company match equal to 33.3333% of dollars contributed to the plan, based upon the average purchase price for the quarter.
- Plan administered through Fidelity
- Eligibility begins first pay date after 90 days of employment
- May contribute after-tax dollars from 3% to 15% of base earnings
- Paid Time Off (PTO) – Company provides 120 hours (equivalent of 15 days) of PTO for new hires
- PTO accrual begins after 90 days of employment
- 16 Paid Holidays
- 11 observed, 5 floating (used for personal holidays)
- List of observed holidays published annually
- Eligibility begins on your first day of employment
- Bereavement Leave – Company will provide you with the following off to grieve the loss of a loved one.
- 5 paid days of leave for an immediate family member. This is a spouse, child, parent, grandparent.
- 1 paid day of leave for a close non-family member.
- Discounts through Fidelity - Purchasing discounts for wireless, car rentals, hotels and more…
- Pet Insurance through Nationwide- 50%, 70% reimbursement plans available through Nationwide with options for wellness. SkySlope contributes $20 a month, per pet, up to 2 pets towards the cost of the plan
- Paid Parental Leave - All full-time regular employees are eligible for SkySlope’s Paid Parental Leave program, which provides employees with up to six (6) weeks of pay following the birth or placement of a new child. Paid Parental Leave must be taken within the first 6 months of the birth or placement of a new child. Employees will be paid at their regular rate of pay based upon their normal work schedule, up to a maximum of forty (40) hours per week.
- Dayforce Wallet- All full-time regular employees will have access to sign up for Dayforce Wallet. Dayforce Wallet is a program provided by our payroll provider that allows employees to access their pay on-demand as soon as it is earned, without waiting for their standard payday.
- Waldorf University discounts and perks- 10% off tuition for employees and their families, free text books, and scholarship opportunities available
- Child Literacy Assistance Program discount- Discounted annual membership to Luminous Minds, an online resource center created to help with child literacy struggles. $85 for 1 year membership as a SkySlope Employee.
- $1,000 Employee Referral bonuses- SkySlope will give every referrer $1,000 (post-tax) after a referee passes their 90 day mark.
- In addition to the above you also receive other perks like our Annual Employee Appreciation Day and additional internal company events.
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