Software Engineer

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer.
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.
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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:
• Recommend and implement improvements to team core processes
• Complete stories or subtasks where the approach is less defined, however the outcome is clearly defined
• Work with senior team members to pressure test their design or approach.
• Propose appropriate scope adjustments centered on delivering the right client outcome while considering technical debt impacts.
• Understand a large code base to contribute to it and understand existing designs and technology choices to make appropriate adjustments to existing designs
• Ensure code exhibits good separation of concerns
• Achieve both high throughput and quality
• Work within the scope of a team with specific guidance from manager and collaborate with team members
• 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