Manager Engineering - Partner Portal

Manager Engineering - Partner Portal 

Location: Remote (Must be based in Guadalajara)

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 or the surrounding areas, with the right to work there, and be able to work within four hours of Eastern Standard Time.

Description

Manager Engineering are members of our product teams, responsible for creating, enhancing, and supporting common features. Working side-by-side with Product Managers, Software and Test Engineers, and Business Stakeholders. They are actively involved in the complete software development life cycle in an agile environment including technical design, hands-on coding, unit testing, integration testing, performance tuning, maintenance, test automation, deploys and upgrades. 

Who you are: 

• Highly collaborative Engineering leader who will lead a team of software and test engineers in a remote first environment 
• Curious to learn the inner workings of your team's domain and users that depend on it
• A supportive mentor and coach for your team members of various levels of experience
• Strong understanding of software system architectures and distributed systems at scale.
• Able to leverage your technical experience to guide your team developing complex solutions
• An advocate for quality, automation, and continuous improvement through data driven decisions
• Steadfast in your desire for production stability, ensuring a top-notch customer experience 
• Driven to stay current by learning and applying new technologies and tools 
• Willing to share your ideas and unafraid to seek out feedback from others
• Adaptable to change and able to guide your team through ambiguity and competing priorities

During the first six months, you will: 

• Independently lead an engineering team in the development or enhancement of products, solutions, and processes 
• Assess the landscape of your team and mission to champion outcomes
• Understand, facilitate, and evolve the core processes of team (development, planning, on-call rotations, bug triage, metrics review, etc.)
• Collaborate with a Product Manager to provide the team with clarity of work
• Empower a team to deliver impact at a high velocity removing roadblocks along the way
• Hold the team accountable while cultivating a healthy team environment 
• Coach and mentor team members toward achieving expectations and progressing in their career 
• Own the overall health and engineering quality of the product(s) owned within a domain or function 

Required Experience: 

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or similar with 5+ years of managerial experience
• Experience building and operating extremely reliable products and services used in enterprise settings supporting critical use cases, including running on-call.
• Experience growing high-performing engineering teams.
• Ability to prioritize strategically and align the team’s work with larger business goals. Have the courage to pivot based on broader impacts.
• Ability to influence the strategic direction of partners and stakeholders.
• Strong technical background. The candidate will serve as a sounding board for technical decisions as well as be able to communicate those decisions across the organization.
• Experience in C# or Java and relational databases (SQL, NoSQL) 
• Nice to have experience in JavaScript or Typescript and in a modern frontend framework such as React
• Proficiency in AWS (preferred), Azure or GCP  

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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