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Alto Software
Does the idea of working at a thriving company that values your expertise and creativity sound stimulating? Palo Alto Software is a 70-employee strong software-development company now in its 4th decade.
Our products, publications, and customer support are all guided by our mission: to help people succeed in business. We're best known for our world-class business planning software, LivePlan, and our team email product called Outpost. We're proud to have served over 1.5-million paid customers, and that more than 2-million people a month read our free expert articles on entrepreneurship.
We're located in beautiful downtown Eugene, Oregon—a vibrant college town where you can live the Pacific Northwest lifestyle without the expense and traffic of Seattle or Portland. Combine that with easy Pacific Ocean access to the west and the Cascade mountain range to the east, and you have the ultimate place to live and work.
Because we're constantly expanding and innovating, we're eagerly seeking talented and motivated individuals to join our team. We value independent thinking, creative problem-solving, family and work-life balance, and a rewarding work culture. Does this sound like a fit for you? If so, check out the jobs below.
Company Culture
- We rely on data
- We solve for the customer
- We're transparent
- We give you the autonomy to be awesome
- We're picky about our peers
- We value community
Benefits and Perks
Medical, Dental, & Vision
401k
Personal Time Off
Modern Workspace
Family-Friendly
Flexible Work Schedule
Gym Benefit
Free Books
Company Events
Transportation Reimbursement
Living Here
Open Positions
Palo Alto Software is looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to join our team.
About our company and Eugene, Oregon
Palo Alto Software is a company that puts people first. We’re a friendly team of more than 70 diverse, world-class experts who appreciate and are aligned with our company values. Please review all the information on our culture at this link before applying to find out if it's a good fit for you.
We believe that when we help one small business owner grow their business, we’re helping an entire community. Please visit liveplan.com and teamoutpost.com to learn how our products help achieve our mission to help people succeed in business.
Our employees are critical thinkers and creative problem-solvers who enjoy work-life integration and full, interesting lives. Our location in Eugene supports access to interesting and challenging work in a growing tech scene in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. 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.
In the past, our team worked primarily in our office with some remote flexibility. We are currently working fully remote for safety reasons, and expect to develop a hybrid in-person/remote situation long-term. When it's safe to do so, we may require in-person attendance during some events, meetings, or projects, but in general, work is a thing you do, not a place you go. We will share our remote work guidelines with successful candidates before hiring.
Benefits we provide:
- Competitive salary
- Health / vision / dental / ortho
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Generous paid vacation and holidays
- Paid community volunteer time
- 401(k) with a match
- Relocation reimbursement
- Flexible work schedule
- Discounted gym membership
- Fun company events
- A diverse and inclusive environment
- Values-based company culture
- Well-stocked break rooms
- And much more
About our LivePlan development team
We use an agile process with two-week sprints, story point estimation, monthly retrospectives, and a commitment to experimentation and continuous process improvement. We develop our web applications using React, ES6, Java, Dropwizard, Redis, Postgres, Docker, AWS cloud hosting, and other contemporary technologies. Our in-house product managers and UX designers work upstream from development, kicking off new feature designs and preparing user stories with design deliverables for team estimation. Our QA team is in-house; they use a combination of technical chops and subject-matter expertise to do manual and automated testing on new features, regressions, bug fixes, and more.
About this role:
This is a full-time, exempt position reporting to the VP of Product and supervising a team of Software Developers.
The Software Development Manager possesses the vision, drive, and understanding necessary to build a highly performant software development team. They guide the team in setting our technology direction, coordinate the development effort, mentor and oversee the developers. This role requires a deep development background, a high level of organization, and empathy and compassion for people.
Please see a summary of our management methodology at this link.
​​​​Education, experience, & skills:
We are looking for a team leader with a servant leadership mentality and the confidence to make high-level technical decisions. We're less interested in X years of experience. What we most want to see are supportive team managers with qualities like this:
- Demonstrated success organizing and supporting a SAAS product development team, including well-organized project-management, motivating and supporting the success and professional development of direct reports, and communicating goals, processes, and feedback with clarity, positivity, and candor
- A commitment to continuous improvement: notice and remove obstacles and move the team toward the ideal, which is a calm, successful teamwork environment producing results everyone can feel proud of
- Top-notch creative problem-solving skills and a talent for guiding team members toward owning and solving problems efficiently
- Proven ability to embrace and learn new technologies, techniques, and processes on an ongoing basis and provide effective training for your team, including subject matter expertise related to the product and its users
- Excellent interpersonal skills, a good sense of humor, and an easy ability to collaborate with other developers, UX designers, DevOps engineers, QA analysts, and company leadership to and develop clear team objectives
- Vigilance for ensuring your team is producing clean, high-quality, maintainable, and performant code
- Four-year degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- All PAS employees uphold our shared values and add their own distinct strengths to that culture. Managers have an important role in cultivating that culture and addressing any actions or behaviors that contradict those values.
Apply today!
Please include a cover letter with your application. We'd like to know why you're interested in this position at Palo Alto Software in Eugene, OR.
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.
Palo Alto Software is looking for two experienced Software Developers to join our team.
About our company and Eugene, Oregon
Palo Alto Software is a company that puts people first. We’re a friendly team of more than 70 diverse, world-class experts who appreciate and are aligned with our company values and add our own distinct strengths to that culture. Please review all the information on our culture at this link before applying.
We believe that when we help one small business owner grow their business, we’re helping an entire community. Please visit liveplan.com and teamoutpost.com to learn how our products help achieve our mission to help people succeed in business.
Our employees are independent thinkers and creative problem-solvers who enjoy work-life integration and lead full, interesting lives. Our location in Eugene supports access to engaging and challenging work in a growing tech scene in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. 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.
In the past, our team worked primarily in our office with some remote flexibility. We are currently working fully remote for safety reasons, and expect a similar level of remote work flexibility to continue long-term. When it's safe to do so, we may require in-person attendance during some events, meetings, or projects. We will share our remote work guidelines with successful candidates before hiring.
Benefits we provide:
- Competitive salary
- Health / vision / dental / ortho
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Generous paid vacation and holidays
- Paid community volunteer time
- 401(k) with a match
- Relocation reimbursement
- Flexible work schedule
- Discounted gym membership
- Fun company events
- A diverse and inclusive environment
- Values-based company culture
- And much more
About our LivePlan development team
We use an agile process with two-week sprints, story point estimation, monthly retrospectives, and a commitment to experimentation and continuous process improvement. We develop our web applications using React, ES6, Java, Dropwizard, Redis, Postgres, Docker, AWS cloud hosting, and other contemporary technologies. Our in-house product managers and UX designers work upstream from development, kicking off new feature designs and preparing user stories with design deliverables for team estimation. Our QA team is in-house; they use a combination of technical chops and subject-matter expertise to do manual and automated testing on new features, regressions, bug fixes, and more.
About this role:
This is a hands-on development position focused on maintaining and extending our market-leading business web applications to help entrepreneurs all over the world start, plan, and grow their businesses. This is a full-time, permanent, exempt position reporting to the VP of Engineering.
The Senior Software Developer is responsible for:
- Contributing to new feature development in our web applications
- Coordinating with our product manager and others to design effective solutions to user needs
- Pairing with other developers as needed to mentor, cross-train, and share knowledge throughout the team
- Participating in estimation sessions to understand user goals and use cases, craft effective solutions, and point work requirements
- Sharing feedback and ideas in team retrospectives to help us continually improve and experiment with our processes, tools, workflow, etc.
- Helping triage customer escalations when needed
- Participating in on-call rotation to help ensure our applications are available at all times
What success looks like:
- Taking ownership of a smaller feature or contributing to the combined efforts to deliver a larger story every sprint
- Fixing high priority bugs that are blocking a release or resolving high priority customer escalations
- Leveraging all the resources of the team to get the best results
- Checking in with other members of the team and making sure that our work is well-designed, well-tested, well-documented, reliable, and that deployment is well-planned
- Supporting your team by doing code reviews, participating in pairing, estimation, and retrospectives, and by refactoring the code you see to be clearer, more reliable, and easier to understand
- Documenting how a feature should work and increasingly becoming a "go-to" person for parts of the application you have experienced
- Pushing yourself to grow into new skills and technologies. This can mean delivering a feature that uses something you haven't tried before, or it can mean using professional development time to learn a topic and then present it to the team.
Education, experience, & skills required:
We are looking for engineers with an excellent senior-level skill set. We're less interested in X years of experience. What we most want to see are strong developers with qualities like this:
- Curiosity and reflectiveness above all else
- Grit. Once you have identified and engaged a problem, you do not give up easily. You are able to navigate and push through obstacles, and consistently drive to a solution.
- A commitment to continuous improvement: notice the less-than-ideal things about your day to day work and relentlessly move those things toward the ideal
- Inclination and ambition for leadership roles, including project-management, motivating and supporting teammates, and communicating goals, processes, and feedback with clarity, positivity, and candor
- Top-notch creative problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to embrace and learn new technologies, techniques, and processes
- Excellent interpersonal skills, a good sense of humor, and an easy ability to collaborate with other developers, UX designers, DevOps engineers, QA analysts, and more
- High level of craftsmanship about producing clean, high-quality, maintainable, and performant code
- Four-year degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- All PAS employees uphold our shared values and add their own distinct strengths to that culture
Education, experience & skills preferred:
- Preferably experience working as part of an agile/scrum development team, though that is easy enough to learn on the job
- Expert level knowledge of one or more of the tools in our stack
Apply today!
Please include a cover letter with your application. We'd like to know why you're interested in this position at Palo Alto Software in Eugene, OR.
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.