Manager Engineering, Community team

About Paylocity
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. 

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.

Take your career to the next level at one of G2's Top 100 Software Companies. Explore our Product & Technology positions to see where you fit! 

About the Team 

Lead a team of 9 engineers on one of Paylocity's most visible employee-facing products. Community is often described as a workplace version of Facebook, helping employees connect, communicate, and engage across their organizations. The next chapter is even more exciting: evolving Community into a true Communication Hub across the Paylocity platform.

Recently transitioned from the US to our Czech engineering hub, the team is also driving a major modernization initiative - transforming a legacy codebase into a modern, scalable architecture using engineering best practices such as TDD, automation, and AWS (EKS).

We're looking for a proactive leader who can set clear priorities, navigate ambiguity, leverage data to make informed decisions, and enable predictable, high-quality software delivery. This is a unique opportunity to shape both the future of the product and the growth of the team behind it.

Position Overview

Primary Responsibilities 

• Lead and manage an engineering team of 8 to 12 engineers, ensuring alignment with product and business  
• Own the overall health, scalability, and quality of products within the team’s domain. 
• Drive technical execution and delivery of high-quality, scalable software solutions. 
• Empower and unblock the team by establishing efficient execution and operational  
• processes, ensuring high velocity and impactful delivery. 
• Facilitate and continuously improve team processes, including development, planning, on-call rotations, bug triage, and metrics review. 
• Drive execution on projects/goals that may extend beyond the immediate team’s scope, ensuring cross-functional collaboration. 
• Coach and mentor engineers, supporting their career growth and skill development. 
• Work with a single team and product partners within a domain that may contain multiple products or applications while managing dependencies and expected outcomes. 
• Collaborate with Product, Security, and Business teams to align technical strategy with company objectives. 
• Ensure adherence to security best practices and compliance standards. 
• Monitor and analyze team performance metrics to drive continuous improvements in quality, velocity, and efficiency. 
• Manage team capacity and resource planning, ensuring the right talent is allocated to meet project goals. 
• Stay up to date on industry trends and emerging technologies, applying relevant innovations to enhance team effectiveness. 

Core Responsibilities 

• Estimate initiatives into monthly/quarterly incremental milestones and deliver them on schedule; share bi-weekly updates on the progress .
• Report Core Engineering metrics (DORA/SPACE) and System Performance and formulate a quarterly tech debt roadmap to manage/improve those metrics .
• Be a Scrum Master and manage bi-weekly sprints, partnering with Product Manager .
• Manage your individual team members’ performance. 

Growth & Development  

• We track development through regular performance conversations and feedback loops, ensuring measurable progress against leadership expectations and competencies. 
• Weekly 1:1s, Staff meetings.
• Rewards and Recognition for great work. 
• Budget available (requires Director Approval) for Books & Training.
• Mentorship program.
• We work on Succession planning for our leaders based on their performance and their desire. 

Education and Experience

• BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology. 
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with 3+ years in a management role. 

 Technical Skills 

• Understand, assess, and support the work of your directs 
• Ensure your team uses company standards and best practices (paved roads) 
• Leverage data to make informed decisions (quality, monitoring, usage, etc.) 
• Understand the architecture and dependencies of your product area 
• Ability to review Pull Request (when necessary) 
• ClaudeAI / Github Copilot experience 
• Ability to Vibe Code tooling to improve engineering processes 
• Cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) 
• Experience with monitoring tools such as DataDog/Splunk/Grafana/New Relic 
• Nice to have: Previous ASP.NET and C# experience 

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.

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