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Senior Software Engineer

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.

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.

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!

Senior Software Engineers are members of our product teams, responsible for creating, enhancing, and supporting common features. Working side-by-side with Product Owners, Software 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. They also work closely with DevOps, DBAs and Systems Engineers to make deployments easier to improve team velocity and overall quality of delivery. They design, develop and contribute to some of the most important functionality happening in the product category, and also mentor, coach and empower technical team members while still taking a very active role in developing solutions.

Are you the teammate we are looking for?

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

• Interested in staying current by applying new technologies

• Able to work in a collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas

• 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

• Excited to work on cutting-edge technology

What you will do:

• Understand customer needs and business goals

• 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

• Build something that you are proud of

• Learn something that you are excited about

• Find innovative ways to increase the quality and velocity of your work

• Exercise creativity and solve problems

• Demonstrate passion for writing quality software

• 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

What you will bring:

• Experience developing highly scalable applications

• Must be advanced in object-oriented design and development and unit-testing using C# and web page development using React

• A 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

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

• 5 years’ hands-on experience preferred with full-stack web development, with experience in Client-Side Programming (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX) 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 commit to their role and take responsibility for their tasks

• 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 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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