Senior Fullstack Engineer

ABOUT PAYSCALE Payscale is the pioneer of compensation intelligence, helping organizations make smarter pay decisions that drive business performance. For more than 20 years, Payscale has combined trusted market data with AI-powered technology to deliver actionable insights that turn pay from a cost into a catalyst for growth. The Payscale Intelligence Cloud portfolio of solutions — Ascent, JobNav, and Paycycle — empower top companies and businesses like Cintas, Leidos, Chipotle, Ohio State University, and TJX Companies. Create confidence in your compensation. Payscale. To learn more, visit www.payscale.com http://www.payscale.com. 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. - 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 (PostgreSQL). - Iterating quickly on early-stage features, balancing speed of exploration with engineering quality. - 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. - Solid experience working with complex relational databases — comfortable navigating non-trivial schemas, writing efficient queries, and reasoning about data relationships. - Comfortable working in a mixed environment — maintaining and evolving established products while also building new services and capabilities on top of them. - Good understanding of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production operations — enough to work effectively alongside a DevOps team without needing hand-holding. - Experience with Docker and container orchestration (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes). - A 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 t…