Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer.
Many companies offer payroll and human capital management (HCM) solutions, but Paylocity takes technology to the next level. We've evolved beyond HCM to a next-generation employee experience platform. With uniquely designed solutions to help companies engage employees, we've changed how and where work gets done and created a personalized work environment. Join Paylocity as we continue to transform the future of technology!
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Senior Software Engineers are members of our product teams, responsible for creating, enhancing, and supporting common features. Working side-by-side with Product Owners, Software Test Engineers, and Business
Stakeholders, they are actively involved in the complete software development life cycle in an agile environment including technical design, hands-on coding, unit testing, integration testing, performance tuning, maintenance, test automation, deploys and upgrades.
They also work closely with DevOps, DBAs, and Systems Engineers to make deployments easier to improve team velocity and overall quality of delivery. They design, develop, and contribute to some of the most important functionality happening in the product category, and also mentor, coach and empower technical team members while still taking a very active role in developing solutions.
Are you the teammate we are looking for?
Who you are:
Engineering is the function that applies principles and techniques of engineering, mathematics, and computer/data science to the design, development, and testing of applications. The Product & Technology engineering family consists of software development, testing, database, devops, virtualization & network.

• Enthusiastic about developing the best software available and providing the ultimate customer experience
• An advocate for continuous improvement of our software development process
• Interested in staying current by applying new technologies
• Able to work in a collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas
• Able to work independently on modules and complete tasks with high quality and contribute to high velocity, but unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team members
• Excited to work on cutting-edge technology

During the first six months, you will:

• Understand customer needs and business goals.
• Often act as a technical lead for features or epics and complete features or epics where the approach is loosely defined and requires technical & design discovery prior to implementation
• Advocate for best practices and a healthy balance of tech debt versus delivery
• Actively mentor/coach less-experienced team members
• Ensure code is flexible, reusable, extensible performant, and high quality through feedback on code reviews
• Decompose outcomes into solutions composed of multiple software components interacting with each other
• Understand and consider technical dependencies
• Provide feedback via decision-making frameworks for proposed changes from across the org
• Work within the scope of a team and participate in driving cross-team collaboration
• Build something that you are proud of
• Learn something that you are excited about
• Do the best work of your career so far
• Find innovative ways to increase the quality and velocity of your work
• Exercise creativity and solve cool problems
• Demonstrate passion for writing quality software
• Contribute to a shared code base
• Demonstrate software quality through unit and integration test automation
• Strengthen your team by sharing your knowledge and interests with others
• Build relationships and communicate with various types and levels of stakeholders across the organization
• Analyze and spearhead improvements to the systems and software that are important to your team
• Manage risks, escalate priorities, and help to resolve issues that could impact production quality

Required Experience:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology-related field, or equivalent experience
Hands on experience with at least some of the following:

• At least 5 years overall experience specifically in object-oriented design and development preferably in C#
• React/Angular or similar modern client-side framework
• Building and deploying RESTful APIs
• Microsoft SQL Server or similar relational database management system
• Focus on quality, including experience writing comprehensive test suites using NUnit, Cypress or similar tools.
• Modern architectures such as microservices and operational tools such as DataDog is a plus
• Amazon Web Services offerings such as Lambda, S3, and CloudFormation stacks are a plus
• Demonstrable knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Experience developing highly interactive applications
• A firm grasp of object-oriented analysis and design
• Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code
• Must be well versed with Systems Architecture and developer tools
• Experience with unit testing and integration test automation
• Must be adaptable to change and have a willingness to learn
• Must have a strong sense of curiosity
• Must commit to their role and take responsibility for their tasks
• Must be able to work effectively in an agile and team environment
• Must be effective and creative in problem solving
• Able to work off-hours and weekends as the need arises

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. 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 in Colorado 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 Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers.