About Paylocity

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.

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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About the Team

We are a team of highly motivated Engineers that has begun greenfield work on a cloud native project developing a world class Recognition and Rewards system. 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 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 on our greenfield project; build and deliver a top notch 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.

What You Will Bring

• You have a proven track record of delivering high quality product features that contribute to a highly reliable cloud native enterprise level application.
• You have a quality-first mindset.
• You have a firm grasp on object-oriented analysis and design.
• You efficiently collaborate with other product engineering team members, product managers, and stakeholders to quickly iterate through requirements, and design.
• You model and inspire engineering excellence on your team and enjoy mentoring your team members.

And

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a similar technical field
• You have 5+ years of relevant full-stack engineering experience, specifically working on highly reliable large-scale systems.
• You design, develop, test, and operate software applications on a technology stack that includes multiple .NET Frameworks and strong C# skills, and have some experience with Messaging frameworks. You also have real world experience building applications using cloud services such as MongoDB Atlas, AWS Lambda, and AWS SNS/SQS.
• You leverage APM tools such as DataDog to ensure mission-critical applications are running optimally and respond quickly when problems arise to ensure a stable and performant client experience.

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.

If you are excited about Paylocity, the technology, the team, the project, and can say yes to several or all of the criteria above, we're excited to hear from you. What are you waiting for?

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer.

Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. 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 role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $84,487 - $182,372/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.