Senior Engineering Manager

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.

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.

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At Paylocity, Senior Software Engineering Managers are technology focused leaders that act as the bridge between engineering team's outcomes and the business strategies driving those outcomes.  It is a critical role in our Product and Technology organization. This key leader serves as manager of managers and is responsible for overseeing the work of multiple engineering teams in our financial domain, enabling them to achieve their highest level of performance and efficiency.  This position requires commitment to exceptional results, a strong desire for continuous improvement and the ability to build a collaborative culture within the team. This, in-turn will ensure we continue to innovate and expand our market-leading product suite.

Who you are:  

• Highly collaborative Engineering leader (manager of managers) who will lead multiple teams in a remote first environment 
• A supportive mentor and coach for engineering managers of various levels of experience 
• Able to independently initiate and plan to execute projects through others with high quality at the velocity needed by the business. 
• At ease working at all levels of the organization. 
• An advocate for quality and controls. 
• A superior communicator with a penchant for change management. 
• Steadfast in your desire for production stability, ensuring a top-notch customer experience. 
• A proponent of data-driven decision making. 
• Driven to stay current by learning and applying new technologies and tools to help guide teams through challenges. 
• Willingness to share your ideas in a collaborative environment with an open mind to receive constructive feedback and unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team members. 
• Adaptable to change and pivot based on situational challenges.  
• Able to deal with ambiguity and guide multiple engineering teams and leaders through ambiguous situations.

What will you do: 

• Support and influence the strategy of your functional area through collaboration with your leadership.
• Delve into highly complex systems and concepts in the financial domain in order to guide your teams toward success.
• Own the overall health and engineering quality of multiple related financial products and demonstrate your ability to scale and improve upon these systems.
• Maintain an understanding of the future direction of the business and how that impacts your strategy.
• Break down the complexity of projects, services, and processes while communicating with other engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders.  
• Work closely with other leaders across the org to coordinate cross-functional development efforts.
• Speak confidently about project timelines, system architectures, engineering practices, quality and more.
• Raise risks immediately while proposing potential directional solutions to mitigate.
• Help guide the teams in the creation of properly leveled estimates in order to set realistic expectations with stakeholders and leadership.  
• Establish routines and frameworks for efficient communication and decision making. 
• Keep your teams informed of broader initiatives throughout the organization and help them integrate when needed.
• Negotiate delivery tradeoffs with your Product partners to ensure tech debt and maintenance work is managed appropriately.
• Help your managers grow their skills and experience.
• Actively seek and hire globally-distributed talent 
• Conduct managerial interviews for candidates, and develop interview loops appropriate for the level of role being hired.
• Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team. 
• Hold regular 1:1's with all of your direct reports as well as occasional skip-levels to ensure the overall health of your organization is understood.
• Give regular and clear feedback around individual's performance.
• Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary 
• Lead the team during operational incidents, root cause analysis, and identifying improvement areas to avoid repeat incidents. 
• Create opportunities for individuals for growth, recognize team members publicly for achievements, and reward team members appropriately for high performance.
• Hold self, engineering managers, and engineering teams accountable for delivering high quality, secure, reusable, and scalable software.
• Build and maintain a healthy relationship with product counterparts in the domain.

What you bring: 

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or similar with 12+ years of experience.
• 5+ years managing managers and driving success across multiple teams.
• A demonstrable level of successful strategy development along with proven outcomes.
• Collaborative project planning capabilities that factor in risk/reward tradeoffs, assumptions and confidence levels.
• An exceptional ability to communicate with a collaborative demeanor.
• A history of both direct and indirect influence using a data-driven approach.
• A basic understanding of enterprise financial planning and management tools.
• Hands-on experience working in cloud technologies (preferably AWS).
• Good understanding of various architectural patterns like SOA and Microservices and the related advantages and trade-offs.
• Experience leveraging observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog.
• Versed in the design and development of API based platforms.
• Must show passion for the role and take responsibility for the team’s deliverables.
• Able to work effectively in a team environment in an agile fashion. 
• Practical and creative in problem-solving.

If you are excited about Paylocity, the technology, the team, the project, and can say yes to several or all of the criteria above, we're excited to hear from you. What are you waiting for?

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. 

This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $138k - $265k /yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual bonus and restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers.