Senior Software Engineer

Location: Remote (Must be based anywhere near Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey)

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.

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We are committed to building a world-class team by hiring top talent globally. To ensure compliance, we use an Employer of Record model. Our ideal candidates would be based in Guadalajara, Mexico, or the surrounding areas, with the right to work there, and be able to work within four hours of Eastern Standard Time.

Position Overview  

As a Senior Software Engineer within International, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to design and development within a collaborative team environment. Your role is key in helping our Engineering team weigh in on the design & direction of our initiatives, engage in collaborative discussion amongst the group on the most technically sound approach forward, contribute to our SDLC to deliver new capabilities, and coach & mentor junior team members. 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.  

International 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.

Apply and learn more about this exciting opportunity within Paylocity! 

Responsibilities 

• Understand customer needs and business goals.
• Often act as a technical lead for features or epics and complete features or epics where the approach is loosely defined and requires technical & design discovery prior to implementation
• Advocate for best practices and a healthy balance of tech debt versus delivery
• Actively mentor/coach less-experienced team members
• Ensure code is flexible, reusable, extensible performant, and high quality through feedback on code reviews
• Decompose outcomes into solutions composed of multiple software components interacting with each other
• Understand and consider technical dependencies
• Provide feedback via decision-making frameworks for proposed changes from across the org
• Work within the scope of a team and participate in driving cross-team collaboration
• Find innovative ways to increase the quality and velocity of your work
• Demonstrate a 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

Required Experience 

• 5 years’ hands-on experience preferred with full-stack web development, with experience in Client-Side Programming
• Proven expertise with .NET 5+
• Experience developing highly interactive applications
• A firm grasp of object-oriented analysis and design
• Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code
• Strong knowledge of relational databases
• Must be well versed with Systems Architecture and developer tools
• Experience with unit testing and integration test automation
• Must be adaptable to change and have a willingness to learn
• 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
• RESTful API design and development 

Preferred Experience  

• Bachelor's degree in a computer science, engineering, technology related field or equivalent experience
• Experience with product migration from data-center to cloud 
• Experience with managing a large-scale SaaS production environment for availability, reliability, and resiliency 
• Prior experience with Cloud Platforms Azure, GCP, or AWS (preferred) 
• Experience with NoSQL databases 
• Proven experience with React 

If you are passionate about delivering high-quality software, collaborating with a team of talented engineers, and contributing to innovative solutions, apply today and be a part of Paylocity’s journey towards excellence!

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 leavebenefits@paylocity.com. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed.

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