Senior Engineer Software

Job Type
Full-time
Description
About Paylocity:
Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.
While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.
We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and a 401(k) match, as well as perks that support you, your family, and your finances. And if it's career development you desire, we provide that, too! At Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.
Help Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology!
Want to develop the strategies and principles needed to deliver compelling software? Join our team and help us enhance our all-in-one software platform, elevate our one-of-a-kind technology, and improve the employee experience.
Take your career to the next level at one of G2's Top 100 Software Companies. Explore our Product & Technology positions to see where you fit!
About The Team
As a member of one of our payroll product teams, this person will be responsible for creating, enhancing, and supporting the payroll processing aspects of the suite of tools provided by Paylocity. Working collaboratively with Product Managers, Software Test Engineers, and Business Stakeholders, our Software Engineers are actively engaged in the entire software development life cycle within an agile environment. This includes technical design, hands-on coding, unit testing, stress testing, performance tuning, maintenance, test automation, deployment, and upgrades.
What You Will Do

• Drive the development of large-scale distributed backend systems from design to launch
• Work on managed code and stored procedures
• Be the technical owner for the team's capabilities and systems
• Deploy to on-premises and AWS
• Collaborate with stakeholders to influence and translate business requirements into technical direction and data-driven implementation plans
• Help develop a vision for everything you work on
• Provide guidance and mentoring for junior engineers
• Lead by example and hold yourself and others accountable

What You Will Bring

• 3 or more years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Fluency in C# .NET
• Experience developing event-driven systems using capabilities like RabbitMQ, Mass Transit, AWS SQS & SNS
• Hands-on experience designing and building resilient, scalable distributed backend systems for Enterprise scale
• Solid understanding of modern REST API standards and concepts
• Domain driven development experience
• Hands-on experience and desire to work with SQL Server queries and Stored Procedures
• Experience with various automated testing methodologies and continuous release concepts like CI/CD and feature flagging
• Familiarity with Observability and Monitoring tools like Datadog or Kibana
• Fluent written and verbal communication skills that enable collaboration with technical or business-centric peers

Nice to have

• Familiarity with agile software development methodologies
• Experience with product migration from data-center to cloud
• Prior experience working with modern payroll applications

What Success Looks Like

• Maintaining existing stored procedures, while chipping away to add logic to the managed code
• Diving into existing code and figuring out how it works and how to improve it
• Raise the bar for reliability and performance
• Improve testing processes to guarantee smooth rollouts
• Improve and drive forward architectural processes
• Solid partnership with other payroll teams
• Foster a culture of respect and accountability on the team

Additional Information

• Peek into Engineering at Paylocity
• Our Engineering Principles
• We pride in our culture
• Celebrating women in tech
• Focus on Quality

EEO and accessibility Statement
Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.
We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.
We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].
This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $84,487 - $182,372/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers.