Symmetry Software is the payroll infrastructure for software & payroll platforms powering the paychecks of over 64 million workers each year. Our fully integrated suite of payroll tax APIs and software tools allows companies to solve tax compliance issues and build applications across the entirety of the payroll process.
About the Role:
Symmetry Software is a leader in payroll tax determination and withholding solutions that empower some of the largest payroll providers in the US. Our mission is to simplify the payroll process with dependable and accurate tax withholding solutions that our customers can rely on.
We run all our solutions in the cloud using the latest technologies that AWS has to offer! This is an amazing opportunity to work in a great environment that most engineers strive to be a part of!
About the Team:
Our team consists of 20 engineers, each bringing their own skills and experiences to the table. We pride ourselves on being a helpful and supportive group, always ready to assist and collaborate to overcome challenges and deliver high-quality work. Whether you're just starting your career or are a veteran in the field, you'll find a welcoming and inclusive environment within our team.
What we are looking for
Our software development team is looking for a cloud platform software engineer to help expand our product portfolio and migrate them to the latest cloud technologies. You will work with an agile development team and be responsible for developing applications, tools, and end-to-end solutions using languages such as Java/Python/Node and front-end frameworks such as React/Angular.
What you'll be doing
- Leveraging your software development skills and your AWS cloud platform experience to provide architectural guidance and best practices for applications and service designs
- Evaluating and developing solutions using core AWS services while understanding the costs associated with alternate approaches
- Collaborate with our product management and design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily.
- Working with serverless, micro-services, containers, and distributed architectures
- Writing scalable, highly available, and high-performing cloud applications
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Github Actions, Liquibase and Terraform.
- Creating front-end application features leveraging frameworks such as React or Angular
- Adding code for new features and functions to core applications
- Ensuring code quality with functional and unit tests
- Analyzing and identifying code problems; debugging code as required
- Maintaining/enhancing existing web-based services and applications
Experience & requirements
Prior experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
- 12+ years of progressive technical experience as a software engineer/architect building distributed applications or solutions.
- 5+ years of cloud computing experience using publicly available services (preferably AWS)
- Experience in architectural and implementation-level design.
- Demonstrated experience in solving complex product development problems.
- Experience designing RESTful services
- Strong foundation in data structures, software designs, micro services, containers, and serverless architecture
- Practical experience writing reasonably complex software in an object oriented, strictly typed, compiled programming language (e.g., Java, C+, .Net, etc.)
- SQL and fundamentals of relational database design (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, etc.)
- Experience using, developing, and deploying to cloud providers using Terraform
- Experience with Agile development, continuous integration, and DevOps culture
- Experience using Agile engineering tracking tools such as JIRA
- Experience with version control / source code management systems (Bitbucket, Gerrit)
- Experience with Data Dog
- Experience with build and release management workflows and tools (e.g., Github Actions)
Required skills & mindsets:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and within a fast-paced team environment
- Strong work ethic supported by solid time-management skills
- Professional and team oriented with strong communication skills
- Ability to communicate at all levels within the company
- Fast and enthusiastic learner with a desire to increase knowledge and understanding of the payroll industry and Symmetry Software products and services
- Ability to get into the nitty gritty of how a product works and clearly communicate its value
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $191,000/yr to $237,000/yr in Scottsdale & most major metro locations. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Symmetry has a physical office space in Scottsdale. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role).
When approved to work from a location other than the office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.
Working at Symmetry Software
Being happy at a job goes beyond just doing the work. Where you choose to spend 40 hours a week should be a place that challenges you professionally and aligns with your personal goals and well-being. Our family-owned and -operated business is collaborative, fun, and friendly.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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