Staff Software Engineer

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer.
Staff 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.
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:
• Optimize beyond just the team by driving cross-team initiatives
• Play a key role in mediating team level technical disagreements driving toward a unified decision forward
• Establish and gain team alignment for best practices and a healthy balance of tech debt versus delivery
• Actively mentor or coach team members
• Design software with multiple components interacting across systems
• Provide feedback on team designs by asking probing, insightful questions that solidify choices
• Solicit and provide feedback via decision-making frameworks for proposed changes from across the organization
• Push the team to continuously improve their knowledge, technical skill, and velocity
• Own the overall health and engineering quality of a team by ensuring appropriate testing, monitoring, observability, and accountability are in place
• Be a strong leader of a team
Required Experience:

• 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