Staff Engineer Software

Paylocity is a cloud-based software company that creates customized HR solutions for small to mid-sized organizations. Our workplace enhances communication and enables employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere. Our award-winning culture ensures everyone has a voice and feels truly welcome. Join Paylocity as we shape the future of technology and the workplace!

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.

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About the team:

The Payroll Calculations team owns the core engine responsible for calculating employee pay across Paylocity’s platform. The team builds and maintains systems that handle high data volume, complex business rules, and frequent regulatory change where correctness and auditability are critical. Our work sits at the center of payroll execution, directly impacting payroll accuracy, compliance, and customer trust across the product suite.

Are you the teammate we are looking for?  

• Always developing towards the best customer experience possible

• Stability and quality are at the forefront of everything you do

• Focuses on the high-level goals and design of a project or direction and how it aligns to the overall vision

• An advocate for continuous improvement of our software development process and shortening cycle times for software releases

• Lifelong learner with boundless curiosity about current market and technology trends, able to adapt accordingly

• Leads the team to make the right choices, in alignment with our technology direction, to promote scalable and stable solutions

• Unintimidated by large, complex, high volume systems

• Able to work in a remote-first collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas with team members. and to effectively engage other areas of the org to help pressure-test ideas

• Able to work independently on features and complete tasks with high quality, but unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team members

• Nimble and responsive to the needs of team

• Dream big, start small mindset

• Excited to work on cutting-edge technology

• Passionate about mentoring, coaching developers, and willing to engage in feedback to drive best outcomes.

What you will do:

• Set the strategic technical direction for the product team

• Work closely with others to drive, influence, and evangelize the overall technical direction (including architectural vision, strategy, principles) for the organization within the team.

• Participate in various forums to evolve and push our technical vision

• Work closely with the Developers, Engineering Managers, SMEs, QA Engineers, Product Owners, Business Owners and product stakeholders to drive customer outcomes

• Direct technical governance of a highly visible product team in a critical space

• Work on proofs of concept and experiments based on team’s needs

• Work closely across specialties to make deployments easier to improve team velocity and overall quality of delivery

• Manage risks, escalated priorities and drive resolution of issues that could impact production stability

• Elevate team members and act as a force multiplier within the team

• Mentor, coach and empower technical team members while still taking a very active role in developing complex technical solutions

• Strengthen our technical acumen as an organization by sharing knowledge and interests with other Staff Software Engineers

• Interview new hires and assess the technical expertise of team members

• Drive quarterly and multi-quarter technical initiatives aligned with stability, scalability, and compliance.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, technology related field or equivalent experience.

• Minimum 8 years of software engineering experience

• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design proficiency in multiple .NET Frameworks including .NET Core.

• Strong C#, NoSQL (MongoDB/PostgreSQL), SQL Server and profiling experience in a high transaction, large dataset environment

• Should be well-versed with Software architecture patterns and developer tools.

• Proven experience in mentoring, coaching, performing code reviews and fostering a learning environment.

• Broad set of technical skills with demonstrated learning agility and intellectual curiosity.

• Must be able to work effectively in an agile environment.

• Has a proven track record in solving highly complex and scalable architectural problems, with a special focus on incrementally evolving tech debt into modern code.

Nice to Have:

· Experience with modern engineering systems that deal with payroll data

· Experience with message brokers (e.g. RabbitMQ)

· Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker)

What Success looks like:

Success in this role is measured by meaningful improvements to the health, correctness, and scalability of the Payroll Calculations platform. Outcomes include:

· Payroll calculation workflows become clearer and more predictable, safer to change, and more resilient to edge cases and compliance driven complexity.

· Recurring production issues and data inconsistencies are reduced through deeper root cause analysis and durable fixes rather than repeated short term patches.

· Technical risk in critical calculation paths is surfaced earlier and managed proactively through clearer architectural decisions, guardrails, and validation strategies.

· Legacy payroll logic and technical debt are incrementally modernized without disrupting payroll accuracy, customer trust, or operational stability.

· Engineering teams make higher quality technical decisions due to clearer technical direction, shared standards, and stronger system understanding, enabling the platform to scale with fewer incidents and less operational overhead.

Physical requirements 

• Ability to sit for extended periods: The role requires sitting at a desk or workstation for long periods, typically 7-8 hours a day. 

• Use of computer and phone systems: The employee must be able to operate a computer, use phone systems, and type. This includes using multiple software programs and inquiries simultaneously. 

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.

The pay range for this position is $110,700 - $205,700 /yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual 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.