Software Engineer - .NET

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Founded in 2006. Profitable and growing. Our clients are many of America's best employers, and millions of their employees.

About PerkSpot

We work with America’s top employers to offer the best perks and discounts to millions employees. These exclusive savings are a great recruitment and retention tool that allows their employees to take advantage of unique opportunities and feel great about their company. We help employees from over 700 companies like Spotify, Walgreens, McDonald's, and Lyft to save on everything from gym memberships and movie tickets to electronics, new cars, and travel.

We’re proud of our leadership position in the industry, but we’re committed to doing more – developing better products, reaching more employers, and getting more employees engaged with our platform. We’re doing a lot of things well.

We’re a team of forty people working out of our office in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. We dress how we like, stock a good beer selection, boast unlimited vacation days, and work to the background of our office Spotify playlists.

We hold weekly all-company get-togethers on Fridays over beers, where we learn from what went wrong and celebrate what went right. That’s why, every week at PerkSpot, we aim a little higher and get a little bit better than the last.

Required Experience

We're looking for candidates that can operate across the entire technical stack of a site, with a focus on strong back-end and data-centric development skills.

  • Strong professional background in Microsoft .NET, especially C# and ASP.NET (2+ years).
  • Basic experience with cloud-based PaaS/IaaS providers (e.g. Rackspace, Azure, AWS) and working with virtualized systems, including: application servers, databases, and networking infrastructure.
  • Thorough background of relational database design, development, and maintenance.
  • Working knowledge of web development basics, including: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
  • Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as: Knockout, Angular, React.
  • Great communication skills with non-technical team members.

Preferred Experience

  • Experience with optimizing high-performance systems and troubleshooting performance issues in virtualized environments, especially related to relational databases.
  • Focus on test driven development (TDD) and experience with at least one major testing framework.
  • Previous experience designing, building, and testing REST-ful APIs.
  • Real-world participation in a DevOps structured environment.
  • Understanding of NoSQL data structures (e.g. ElasticSearch, MongoDB).
  • Experience and desire to mentor junior developers.

Your First Month

You'll roll up your sleeves and make a tangible contribution the first week. You'll dig into our codebase to acquaint yourself with it all; the glitzy new code as well as the crufty old stuff that we need to get around to replacing. You'll take a look at our business goals and product backlog, and you'll weigh-in on where we should focus next. You're going to get results. You're going to ship code.

You're going to be confronted with something you don't know. You're going to admit it. You're going to rise to the challenge and grow. At some point, you're going to break something. It's bound to happen. You're going to admit it so we can work together to resolve it. Then, you're going to stop and learn from it to keep it from happening again. Then, you're going to suck up your pride and get back to getting things done.

Throughout Your Career Here

You're going to grow, a lot. We're a big platform, but still a small team. That means we're going to trust you with more responsibility than elsewhere, invest in you more and you're going to reap the professional benefits of that.

You're going to play a key role in developing every part of our technology platform. Our site is already stable and scalable, but we have to invest and think bigger to grow our business. You're a key part of that.

You'll stand a little taller every time you walk into a Walgreens, Chipotle, or onto a Southwest Airlines flight, because you'll be playing a role in making those people love their jobs that much more. You'll get in the habit of getting excited to head to work every morning, because you know you'll be working in a place where you can actually get stuff done, surrounded by a group of people you're actually proud to be working with.

Yeah, you're also going to snag a few good deals for yourself, too.

Benefits

PerkSpot offers the full suite of benefits you’d expect from a profitable, established company like us. We offer complete health and dental insurance, commuter benefit, and 401k program. We have in-office bike storage and a shower on-site. We offer an open time-off policy. The beer is free, and we’re pretty obsessive about our local coffee.

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All applications will be kept strictly confidential. Please submit a resume AND cover letter (we know it is old school, but a cover letter is very important to us) telling us how you stack up to the qualifications, plus any others you feel would be relevant to PerkSpot. 

PerkSpot is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
    • C#Languages
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • SqlLanguages
    • .NET CoreLanguages
    • jQueryLibraries
    • ModemizrLibraries
    • ASP.NETFrameworks
    • Elastic SearchDatabases

Location

320 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654

An Insider's view of PerkSpot

What projects are you most excited about?

The projects that excite me the most are ones where I'm able to collaborate cross-functionally to creatively market the company. With a product that is always evolving, it's exciting learning and expanding my knowledge as a marketing professional while telling the brand's story to a variety of different industries and audiences.

Courtney

Senior Content Marketing Associate

What makes someone successful on your team?

Having a strong sense of curiosity goes far on the PerkSpot Finance team. We are always pushing to dig deeper on analysis and provide the “why” behind the numbers. We want our partners across the business to have the information they need to be successful. If they succeed, then we’ve done our jobs.

Mel

Director of Finance

How do your team's ideas influence the company's direction?

The tech team has a lot of influence over how solutions are implemented, leading to scalable, reliable solutions which provide great value to our users. Ultimately these design decisions help grow the business by providing a great user experience!

Chris

Manager of DevOps

How does your team reward individual success?

Each week a member of our team is recognized as the PerkSpot "Star" of the week. They recieve a big trophy to position on their desk for the week and receive credits to spend in our gift card platform. This person has gone above and beyond to help the company and/or support multiple teams on a special project or initiative.

Anthony

Senior Account Executive

What are PerkSpot Perks + Benefits

PerkSpot Benefits Overview

PerkSpot offers the full suite of benefits you’d expect from a profitable, established company, including health and dental insurance, 401(k) with company match, pre-tax transit benefits, and fully-funded disability coverage. We have in-office bike storage and showers on-site.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K) matching
Company equity
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Company sponsored family events
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Pet friendly
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education available during work hours
Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

PerkSpot offers free Financial Advisory services to all our employees from an outside Financial Advisory firm.

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