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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. 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
Do you want to apply and develop your business and marketing skills at a successful software company?
Palo Alto Software is looking for a talented Business Development intern who's enthusiastic about learning while gaining on-the-job experience with a world-class team right here in Eugene, OR.
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.
This internship will occur mostly in person in our office in Eugene.
We are an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion at our company. We encourage any motivated and interested candidates to apply, whatever their race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status may be. Please see our diversity and inclusion statement here.
Our internships run for 8 weeks beginning June 27th, and an average of 20 hours per week. The position is part-time, temporary, non-exempt, and pays $20/hour. As a business intern, you would be assisting the Business Development (Biz/Dev) team. Benefits include flexible schedules, community involvement and volunteer time, fun company events, a diverse, inclusive culture, an exceptional work environment, daily snacks, and much more.
About our Biz/Dev team
We are a metrics- and mission-driven team that loves building relationships with other organizations that help small businesses succeed. This team’s focus is on expanding the mission of the company to new and valuable channels by forming strategic partnerships and working with like-minded organizations that also help SMBs succeed. Everything we do is about making connections with companies and organizations to scale our impact on small businesses around the world. Our team members must be both highly collaborative and self-directed, while also aware of PAS’s top-level strategy. Our team strives to create a culture of personal and professional growth through transparency, trust, and willingness to give and receive constructive criticism that expands our capacity to continue the growth of our mission.
Biz/Dev Duties & Responsibilities
- Finding and connecting with global business professionals improving our network base
- Building contacts to formulate global partnerships with business advisors, incubators, accelerators, consultants, and other groups who help small businesses succeed
- Collaborating with the team on assigned projects and creating comprehensive lists of general leads for universities, government bodies, private partnerships, etc.
- Analyzing data to inform competitive strategy
- Comparing overall business trends of LivePlan and competitors
Skills & Qualifications:
- Enrolled in a Graduate or Undergraduate program
- Completed many of your major requirements
- Have extensive prior experience in clear and concise writing
- Produced or assisted production of editorial pieces or business-related content (if interested in marketing copywriter focus)
What to Bring to an Interview:
- Samples of written work or sample presentations, marketing material mock-ups, or any other relevant works you’ve produced
- Work Availability Schedule
- Ideas on how your passions and interests can help focus your intern experience, making it most valuable for us both
Do you have what we're looking for? Apply today!
Experience life as a software engineer with an in-person paid summer internship at Palo Alto Software.
About our company
Palo Alto Software in Eugene, Oregon, is a seriously great place to work. We’re a friendly team of more than 70 experts of many kinds. 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.
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.
About our Product team
Our team utilizes a continuous integration and delivery model (CI/CD), meaning the work is fast-paced and requires close collaboration with other members of the product team. Our product managers and UI/UX designers work with development, kicking off new feature designs and preparing user stories with constant input from developers. Our QA team is in house too; 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
Our internships are in-person in Eugene, OR, and run for 10-12 weeks starting June 27th. They are part-time (hours negotiable), non-exempt, temporary, and pay $20/hour. Benefits include flexible schedules, community involvement and volunteer hours, fun company events, diverse, inclusive culture, an exceptional work environment, daily snacks, and much more.
With an internship here, you will get good exposure to working on a team in a flexible office environment.
Among the things we’ll ask of you:
- Contribute to new feature development
- Get real-world experience with React with Typescript, ES6, Java, Docker, version control, and other contemporary technologies
- Pair with senior engineers to learn and tackle harder problems together
- Diagnose and fix real application bugs
- Coordinate with our QA team on testing
- Participate in discovery sessions to understand user goals and use cases, craft effective solutions, and work with requirements
- Share feedback and ideas in team check ins to help us continually improve and experiment with our processes, tools, workflow, etc.
- Complete and present a capstone project at the end of the internship
What we’re looking for
We value curiosity, intelligence, and drive. We're looking for self-starters who are happy to tackle unfamiliar technologies and complex problems. You'll get support, training, and mentorship from our senior staff, but we also want you to be willing and able to fight through problems on your own and learn on the job. Top-notch creative problem-solving skills are important. We're also looking for people with great interpersonal skills, a good sense of humor, and an easy ability to collaborate with the rest of the team.
Apply today!
Experience life as a web developer with an in-person paid summer internship at Palo Alto Software.
About our company
Palo Alto Software in Eugene, Oregon, is a seriously great place to work. We’re a friendly team of more than 70 experts of many kinds.
Our products, publications, and customer support have been guided by the same mission for 40 years: to help people succeed in business. We believe that when we help one small business grow, we’re helping an entire community.
We value independent thinking, creative problem-solving, family and work-life balance, and a rewarding work culture.
About our Web Development team
Our agile WebDev team uses PHP, JavaScript, Sass, MySQL, Redis, and Apache for our marketing sites for our LivePlan business planning software and Outpost email collaboration tool. We hold weekly work estimation meetings, and use the kanban method to prioritize and streamline. Our workflow process is constantly evolving as we identify pain points and efficiencies, and we hold monthly team retrospectives to identify successes and areas for improvement. To encourage personal and professional growth, team members have weekly one on one meetings with the lead developer. Each member of our team makes valuable contributions to figuring out how to do things in the best possible way.
About this role
Our internships run 10-12 weeks starting June 27th. They are part-time (hours negotiable) non-exempt and pay $20/hour. Benefits include flexible schedules, community involvement and volunteer hours, fun company events, diverse, inclusive culture, an exceptional work environment and team, daily snacks, and much more.
Description
This internship will require experience in software design, coding, and debugging. This knowledge is essential for all applicants. Experience gained in the classroom and through personal application will be accepted.
You’ll be working with the development team that builds and maintains all of our marketing and sales sites which receive over 2 million visitors every month. You’ll be working with a team of developers and be part of the marketing team that focuses on creating great content and optimizing our sales and marketing processes.
Responsibilities
- Develop new website features
- Diagnose and fix actual website bugs
- Participate in estimation sessions to understand user goals and use cases, craft effective solutions, and point-work requirements
- Share feedback and ideas in team retrospectives to help us continually improve and experiment with our processes, tools, workflow, etc.
What we’re looking for
We value curiosity, intelligence, and drive. We're looking for self-starters who are happy to tackle unfamiliar technologies and complex problems. You'll get support, training, and mentorship from our senior staff, but we also want you to be willing and able to fight through problems on your own and learn on the job. Top-notch creative problem-solving skills are important. We're also looking for people with great interpersonal skills, a good sense of humor, and an easy ability to collaborate with the rest of the team.
Majors
Computer Science/Network Engineering, Engineering, Mathematics
Do you have what we're looking for? Apply today!
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity 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 a talented Full Stack Web Developer to join our team. We are accepting applications from candidates with a wide range of experience from junior to senior level. This position is open to Oregon residents or those willing to relocate.
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, flexible schedule, 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 this role:
This is a full-time, permanent, exempt position reporting to the Web Development Manager. Starting salary ranges from $50,000-$80,000 DOE.
The ideal candidate is a self-starter who embraces autonomy and is dynamic, adaptable and curious. In this role you will work closely with the team to create a high-quality, performant experience to delight our customers while meeting our marketing objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Writing sound code that runs efficiently and meets all project requirements
- Creating pages that are responsive, fast, and accessible across devices and browsers
- Leveraging reusable code and libraries and crafting custom tools as necessary
- Collaborating and communicating daily with the team
- Writing up bugs, stories, documentation and research notes as needed
- Maintaining a holistic view of our code across sites, with priorities on simplicity, quality, and usability
- Participating in team discussions to improve processes as we question the status quo
- Staying current with our products as well as relevant development languages, tools, trends, and best practices
- Translating wireframes and mockups from designers into fully realized user experiences
- Participating in code reviews and sharing knowledge with other team members
Education, experience & skills required:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field) is valued, but equivalent education and/or professional experience is welcomed
- Web development experience in a production environment
- Able to demonstrate coding skills and an understanding of good website design and development practices
Education, experience & skills preferred:
Familiarity with or expertise in one or more of the following:
- Web development tools and concepts: PHP 8, SCSS, JavaScript, ES6, MySQL, AJAX, REST, and/or JSON, and image optimization
- SEO: principles, assessment criteria, and development approaches
- Implementing concepts for the web from design tools such as Figma, Photoshop or similar
- Web page speed analysis and performance optimization
- Layout technologies and design systems such as Bootstrap, Flexbox, and Atomic Design
- WordPress front-end and back-end development (Gutenberg blocks, themes, plugins, etc…)
- Web application security
- Object-Oriented PHP
- Git version control
- Bash command line
- LNMP Stack or similar
- Docker containerization
- Testing frameworks (Cypress, Jest, PHPUnit)
- Mark-up language templating such as Mustache and/or Handlebars
- Building mockups, prototyping solutions, and iterating to support the design journey
- SDKs and APIs
- Jenkins and task runners
- CICD
About our Web Development team:
We are a team comprised of Web Developers, Interns, QA, DevOps and a Project Manager. We work closely with the larger Marketing team and Designer to build and maintain the Palo Alto Software marketing websites and blogs.
We work in an Agile Kanban-based method with opportunities for empowered development work and cross-team hackdays each month. Our deploy and workflow processes are solid, and include a mix of CICD and weekly epic releases across multiple environments (Dev, QA, Stage, and Prod). We have adopted some commonalities across the team, like macOS, spaces not tabs, and bash (w/ a GNU slant), but we're always open to new ideas.
We value good communication, getting the job done well, and maintaining a supportive work environment. We stay connected through daily stand-up's, weekly meetings (1:1s, team, and estimation), and monthly retros.
If you're a Full Stack Web Developer who is passionate about creating accessible, engaging, performant, and user-friendly websites, we encourage you to apply for this position. We're looking for someone who enjoys working on a team, is a good communicator, is always seeking to learn and improve, and is excited to contribute to a dynamic company to support our customers' success.
Apply today! Please explain in your cover letter why you're interested in this position and our company and what makes you a great addition to our team.
Interested in joining the Palo Alto Software team, but not seeing an open position that's right for you? Submit an application here, and tell us about the ways your skills may help us in our mission to help people succeed in business.
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.
Our agile and innovative team of independent thinkers and creative problem-solvers enjoy work-life integration and full, interesting lives. We believe in candor with kindness and work that matters. We are currently working remotely for our health and safety. When it's safe, we plan to spend some targeted days in the office together for brainstorming, collaborating across teams, and developing good working relationships with our teammates. We'll maintain our flexibility of hours and locations to benefit from the best of both worlds. Work is a thing you do, not a place you go, and we understand that 9 to 5 may not be the hours you do your best work. That's ok! Managers at PAS are more focused on achieving objectives than tracking the time and place you work. (Only employees fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are allowed into the office or any company events.)
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion at our company. We encourage any motivated and interested candidates to apply, whatever your race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status may be. Please see our diversity and inclusion statement here.
Benefits we provide:
- Flexible schedule, no-meeting Fridays, and hybrid remote/in-office work
- Work-based on our mission to help people succeed in business
- Competitive salary
- Health / vision / dental / ortho
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Generous paid vacation and holidays
- Paid parental leave, bereavement leave, jury-duty leave
- Paid community volunteer time
- 401(k) with a 4% match
- Relocation reimbursement
- Discounted gym membership
- 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
Apply today!
Palo Alto Software is looking for a talented Senior, Lead, or Principal 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, flexible schedule, 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
Small, full-stack squads comprised of engineers and QA analysts work alongside our product manager, UX designer, and user researchers to understand the needs of our customers and collaborate closely through the entire value pipeline—from concept to development to delivery. As we engage the continuous discovery+delivery model, we deliver high-impact solutions to our customers on a regular 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 Director of Engineering. Starting salary ranges from $115,000-$125,000 DOE.
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.
- Asking for help early and often, and embracing that things rarely go exactly as planned. Preventing small issues from becoming big problems by leaning on the team in support of your efforts.
- Regularly attending LivePlan training, LivePlan bootcamps, and customer 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 effectively the LivePlan app and architecture currently embodies the LivePlan method, thinking about how it could be better, and sharing those opinions and ideas with the team.
- Working to contribute to a safe environment for the team. Bringing your whole self to work, and consistently showing up with kindness. Candidly sharing your thoughts, opinions, and needs.
- Consistently investing time and energy into your professional relationships with teammates so that you can do your best work and take risks together.
- Setting daily and weekly intentions for your work output, reviewing results and making improvements.
Engineers at PAS:
- Collaborate daily and communicate proactively with your squadmates, manager, product manager, and our customers to ensure that the work you’re doing creates value
- Squash bugs
- Plan, build, and maintain features
- Write up tickets and documentation in the course of your daily work - Jira experience a plus
- Participate in team discussions on how we can improve our processes
- Engage in ongoing learning activities to expand knowledge of the product, financial management, language and library features, tools, current trends, and best practices
- Other possible duties:
- Onboard new developers, mentor junior developers, mentor interns, and cross-train team members from other areas of specialty
- Collaborate with stakeholders from other departments to implement tools for customer engagement and usage tracking
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 developers, UX designers, QA analysts, and more
Education, experience, & skills required:
- 4+ years experience developing customer-facing web apps in a professional environment
- Awareness of the fundamentals of web application security
Education, experience & skills preferred:
Proficiency in one or more of the technologies in our stack:
- React
- TypeScript/JavaScript
- CSS
- Java
- Dropwizard
- PostgresQL
- Redis
- Elasticsearch
- 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.