Staff Engineer Software - Recognition and Rewards

About Us

At Paylocity, our modern HCM solutions and best practices are focused on creating amazing employee experiences that help drive positive cultures within organizations and are fueled by learnings within our own award-winning culture. We power over 35K businesses in the US alone and our HCM product is the fastest growing in the market. At Paylocity, you're more than an engineer. In fact, your contributions will touch the lives of millions of people every day. Senior Software Engineers at Paylocity have a deep impact across a wide variety of business and technology decisions as we continuously seek to delight our users with a best in class modern workforce experience. 

About the Team

We are hiring an expert lead software engineer to join a fast-paced, highly collaborative engineering team. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be leading to continuously improve and enhance the Recognition and Rewards platform, designing solutions for scale and optimized user experience, partnering with the tech platform and operations teams to document the technical designs, hands-on develop integrations, and oversee the operational processes encompassing SDLC, Agile, release management, and CI/CD.  

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About the Role

At Paylocity, Senior Software Engineers are technologists who are able to help craft scalable systems that are modern and efficient. They are collaborative role models, empathetic thought leaders within and beyond their team, humble teachers, and aspiring masters of their craft! We are looking for a strong full-stack Senior Software Engineer on our Recognition & Rewards team who has a passion for building and scaling highly-available, mission-critical platforms and applications that will enable peer-to-peer and manager-to-employee recognition and rewards.  

What You'll Do

• Product Engineer: Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to build and deliver roadmap enhancements to our Recognition and Rewards experience with technologies including AWS services such as Amazon EventBridge, Lambda, SNS/SQS, and MongoDB Atlas.
• Agile Partner: Collaborate with cross functional teams and deliver meaningful iterations; leverage Agile methodologies along with CI/CD to rapidly release new features.
• Team Leadership:  Actively mentor/coach less experienced team members and contribute to a positive, inclusive team culture.
• Operational Owner: Build and productionize highly scalable and tolerant systems using AWS; leverage internal tooling to accelerate product development cycles.
• Data Spelunker: Answer business questions and influence decisions using data; enable team members to answer questions with data that leverages quantitative and qualitative inputs. 

Who You Are 

• Enthusiastic about developing the best software available and providing the ultimate customer experience 
• 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 
• Enables team to make the right choices, in alignment with our technology direction, to promote scalable and secure solutions 
• Focuses on the high-level goals and design of a project or direction and how it aligns to the overall vision 
• Able to work in a collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas with team members and to reach out to other teams and the Tech Practice to help pressure-test ideas 
• Able to work independently on modules 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 and coaching developers 

During the first 6 months, you will

• 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 outcomes 
• Direct technical governance of a product team 
• Evangelize and operationalize a standard or framework for use within the team 
• Contribute to a shared codebase 
• 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 quality 
• Implement next generation technologies in their team 
• 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 

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a computer science, engineering, technology related field or equivalent experience.  
• Must have 5 years of professional experience as a Senior Software Engineer or equivalent and 5-8 years of hands-on experience with full-stack web development and in designing and developing large-scale enterprise level applications.
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design proficiency in multiple .NET Frameworks including .NET Core.
• Proficiency in C#, React, MongoDB
• Strong experience with the core AWS services and how to leverage the cloud for scalability and performance. 
• AWS cloud practitioner certification is a plus.
• 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 architectural problems.

What Success Looks Like

Success for a Senior Software Engineer joining our Recognition and Rewards team would involve demonstrating expertise in cloud native development and your ability to build highly scalable and reliable systems. You collaborate effectively with other team members, stakeholders, and product managers. You have a passion for mentoring and coaching less experienced team members, contributing to a positive, inclusive team culture, and inspiring engineering excellence. As a senior software engineer, you should be able to operate as an Agile partner, leveraging CI/CD methodologies to rapidly release new features, and answer business questions using data to influence decisions.

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