Senior Engineer Software - Mobile Team

Location: Remote (Must be based anywhere in the Czech Republic)

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.

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! 

Senior Software Engineers are members of our product teams responsible for creating, enhancing, and supporting standard 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.  

Senior Software Engineers 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. They 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 
• Maintain and upgrade technology debt and legacy systems 

During the first six months, you will: 

• Collaborate with US and CZ based engineering teams to design backend solutions for Mobile Frontend 
• Develop BackEnd for FrontEnd REST APIs in C# and connect with NoSQL databases such as (DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis) and SQL databases such as (SQL Server, Aurora, Postgres) 
• Use observability tools (such as DataDog/New Relic/ELK) to troubleshoot/trace issues and improve performance 
• Advocate for best practices and a healthy balance of tech debt versus delivery 
• Ensure code is flexible, reusable, extensible, performant, and high quality through feedback on code reviews by writing unit tests, integration tests, and load tests 
• Work within the scope of a team and participate in driving cross-team collaboration  
• Find innovative ways to increase the quality and velocity of engineering work 
• Demonstrate passion for writing quality software 
• Strengthen your team by sharing your knowledge and interests with others 
• Build relationships and communicate with various types of stakeholders across the organization 
• Identify risks, escalate priorities and help to resolve issues that could impact production quality 

Required Experience: 

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing RESTful APIs (C# or Java) 
• 2+ years of hands-on experience preferred with database development (NoSQL and SQL) 
• 2+ years of experience developing cloud-native solutions (AWS/Azure/GCP) 
• Basic understanding of fault tolerance, resiliency, error handling, and architectural patterns 
• Experience with unit testing and integration test automation 
• Able to work off-hours and weekends as part of On-Call rotation 
• Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code 
• Bachelor's degree in a computer science, engineering, technology related field or equivalent experience 

Nice to have: 

• Docker, AWS EKS 
• AWS Solutions Architect certification 
• Prior experience designing backend for Mobile Frontend (Swift,Kotlin,Ionic,React Native) 
• gRPC, GraphQL  

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 accessibility@paylocity.com.

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