Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

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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This is a fully remote position, allowing you to work from home or location of record within the U.S. with no in-office requirements.  You must be available five days per week during designated work hours.  The work arrangement for this role is subject to change based on business needs and individual performance. This may include adjustments to on-site requirements or schedule expectations, as necessary.

About the Team

We are a team of highly motivated Engineers that has begun work on an important Payroll Tax system to ensure that payroll related taxes are collected from our clients and paid to tax agencies accurately and on time. This is the ideal time for you to join our team with plenty of opportunity for you to influence and guide the design and direction of our system! If that sounds exciting to you, you've come to the right place!

About the Role

At Paylocity, Senior Software Engineers are technologists who are able to craft scalable systems that are modern and efficient. They are collaborative team members, empathetic contributors within and beyond their team, humble mentors to more junior developers, and masters of their craft! We are looking for a strong backend Senior Software Engineer on our Tax Treasury Engineering team who has a passion for building and scaling highly-available, mission-critical applications that process tens of thousands of financial obligations daily and transact billions of dollars annually.

What You'll Do

• Product Engineer: Collaborate with team members and stakeholders on our project; build and deliver a top notch Tax Treasury experience with technologies including .Net WorkEngines on a scalable HSCP cloud platform and PostgreSQL in the cloud.
• Agile Partner: Collaborate with cross functional teams and deliver meaningful iterations; leverage Agile methodologies along with CI/CD to rapidly release new features.
• Operational Owner: Build and productionize highly scalable and tolerant systems using .Net and PostgreSQL; leverage internal tooling to accelerate product development cycles; participate in On-Call rotations
• Data Spelunker: Answer business questions and influence decisions using data; enable team members to answer questions with data that leverages quantitative and qualitative inputs.
• 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
• 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
• Contribute to Paved Roads, CoPs, RFCs

Who You Are

• You have a quality-first mindset.
• You have a proven track record of working with Staff and Principal Engineers and codesigning, building, and productionizing highly reliable enterprise level applications at scale.
• You efficiently collaborate with other product engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders to quickly iterate through requirements, architecture, and design.
• You model and inspire engineering excellence on your team and you are passionate about mentoring your team members. Interested in staying current by applying new technologies
• 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
• You make information- and data-driven proposals that help guide Paylocity towards our long-term vision.
• You build, test, and operate software applications on a technology stack that includes .Net, Postgres, Dapper, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, event driven architecture, distributed caching and streaming patterns. AWS cloud experience is a plus.
• You leverage APM tools such as DataDog to ensure mission-critical applications are running optimally.

Education & Experience

• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience, specifically working on highly reliable large-scale systems. Experience in tax systems is a huge plus
• Experience developing highly scalable applications
• Must be advanced in object-oriented design and development and unit-testing, Web Services using .Net C#
• Firm grasp of object-oriented analysis and design, RESTful API Design patterns
• Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code
• Good knowledge of relational databases - Postgres preferable
• Bachelor's degree in a computer science, engineering, technology related field or equivalent experience
• 5 years’ hands-on experience preferred with full-stack development, with experience in NoSQL and SQL
• Demonstrate experience with CI/CD and APM tools, Datadog experience is a major plus
• AWS exposure and experience is a plus
• 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 be able to work effectively in an agile and team environment
• Must be effective and creative in problem solving 

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. 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 $98k - $140k/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.