Software Engineer

Palo Alto Software is looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our LivePlan app engineering team. This position is open to Oregon residents only.

About our company and Eugene, Oregon

We’re a friendly team of 70 diverse, world-class experts. Each team member demonstrates our company values while adding positive contributions to our culture. Please review all the information on our culture at this link before applying to find out if it's a place where you can thrive.  

Please visit liveplan.com to learn how our business planning and tracking products and training help achieve our mission to help people succeed in business. We believe that when we help one small business owner grow their business, we’re helping an entire community, which makes our work matter.

Our agile and innovative team of independent thinkers and creative problem-solvers enjoy work-life integration and full, interesting lives. We have a hybrid work environment with flexible schedules.

Eugene’s commute times and our drinking water from the McKenzie River Watershed are some of the best in the nation, and homes are more affordable than you’d find in Portland, Seattle, or the Bay Area.

We are an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Please see our diversity and inclusion statement here.

Benefits we provide:

• Competitive salary
• Health (general and mental healthcare), vision, dental, ortho for you and your family
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Reimbursement Account
• Generous paid time off and holidays
• Paid community volunteer time
• 401(k) with a match
• Relocation reimbursement
• Hybrid workplace with flexible schedules (Tuesdays & Thursdays required in office) and no-meeting Fridays
• Discounted gym membership or wellness program reimbursements
• Fun company events
• A diverse and inclusive environment
• Values-based company culture
• Opportunities to serve on the "LiveWell" committee, Charitable Fund committee, and much more

About Our Product Team

Engineers work alongside our product trio (Product Manager, UX Designer, Lead Discovery Engineer) to understand the needs of our customers and collaborate closely through the entire value pipeline—from concept to development to delivery. Using the continuous discovery+delivery model, we deliver high-impact solutions to our customers on a daily cadence. Each member of the team is empowered to engage the big picture, bring their ideas to bear on tough problems, and experience the satisfaction of having a palpable impact on the outcomes of the team.

We currently develop our web app using React, TypeScript, Java, Dropwizard, Redis, Postgres, Docker, AWS cloud hosting, and other contemporary technologies. Experience in or desire and ability to learn this technology is valued. 

About this role:

This is a full-time, permanent, exempt position reporting to the LivePlan team Engineering Manager. Starting salary ranges from $100,000-$135,000 depending on experience.

What Success Looks Like:

• Challenging yourself and your team to meet Palo Alto Software’s core value of excellence—the target is world-class products and world-class teams. 
• Internalizing our 3-5 year product vision (what we’re building and why) and our 3-5 year technical vision (how we’re going to execute on and support the product vision).
• Identifying and taking ownership of hard problems, collaborating with the team to discover and validate solutions, and relentlessly executing until the problem is solved.
• Finding the right balance between autonomy and collaboration, knowing when to wrestle with problems and when to seek advice.
• Taking ownership of the features you are working on, and consistently delivering high-quality results that help us achieve our objectives.
• Collaborating and communicating proactively with engineers, the product trio, and other teams to ensure that the work you are doing creates value.
• Regularly attending LivePlan training and customer research calls in order to achieve and maintain an understanding of the LivePlan business planning method our software is built for, as well as maintaining an understanding of who our users are and the problems they need us to help them solve.
• Forming opinions on how the LivePlan app architecture can be improved to deliver value more quickly and efficiently, and sharing those opinions and potential solutions with the team.
• Consistently contributing to a safe and supportive team environment by bringing your whole self to work, sharing thoughts candidly, and investing in strong professional relationships that enable collaboration and risk-taking.

What you bring to the job:

• High level of craftsmanship around producing a well-modularized, understandable, and performant codebase
• Curiosity and reflectiveness above all else
• Grit. Once you have identified and engaged a problem, you do not give up easily. You navigate and push through obstacles, and consistently drive to a solution.
• A commitment to continuous improvement
• Top-notch creative problem-solving skills 
• Proven ability to embrace and learn new technologies, techniques, and processes
• Excellent interpersonal skills, an appreciation for levity, and an easy ability to collaborate with other engineers, UX designers, the product manager, marketing and sales teams, and more

Education, experience, & skills required:

• 3+ years experience developing customer-facing web apps in a professional environment
• Awareness of current best practices in modern web app development
• Awareness of the fundamentals of web application security

Education, experience & skills preferred:

• A focus and passion for front-end engineering, while also being able to handle full-stack tasks
• An interest in using AI to develop product features and improve engineering productivity
• Proficiency in two or more of the technologies in our stack:
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • CSS
  • Java
  • Dropwizard
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • AWS

Apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.