Software Engineer - Benefits

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.
Why Work at Paylocity: 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! 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.
Position Overview: As a Software Engineer within the Benefits Product domain, you'll have the opportunity to be involved in the development and support of our Product within a collaborative team environment. Your role is key in the delivery of new initiatives, engaging in collaborative discussion amongst the group on the most technically sound approach forward, and contributing to our SDLC to deliver new capabilities. You'll work side-by-side with Product Owners, Software Test Engineers, and Business Stakeholders, and be actively involved in an agile software development environment. Benefits is a complex Product domain and within our team you'll have the opportunity to be involved in our path towards product modernization, delivering exciting new product capabilities, and working to solve key architectural challenges that will enable future growth and scale.
Responsibilities

• 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