Staff Engineer Software - Recognition and Rewards

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Paylocity is a modern HCM solutions provider powering over 35,000 businesses in the U.S. and is the fastest‑growing HCM product in the market. The company’s award‑winning culture focuses on creating amazing employee experiences that drive positive workplace culture. Senior Software Engineers at Paylocity have a profound impact across a wide variety of business and technology decisions, continuously seeking to delight users with a best‑in‑class modern workforce experience.

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

• 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.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams and deliver meaningful iterations; leverage Agile methodologies along with CI/CD to rapidly release new features.
• Actively mentor/coach less experienced team members and contribute to a positive, inclusive team culture.
• Build and productionise highly scalable and tolerant systems using AWS; leverage internal tooling to accelerate product development cycles.
• Answer business questions and influence decisions using data; enable team members to answer questions with data that leverages quantitative and qualitative inputs.

• 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 teams 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 ideas and 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 the team.
• Dream big, start small mindset.
• Excited to work on cutting‑edge technology.
• Passionate about mentoring and coaching developers.

• Set the strategic technical direction for the product team.
• Work closely with others to drive, influence and evangelise the overall technical direction for the organization within the team.
• Participate in various forums to evolve and push our technical vision.
• Work closely with Developers, Engineering Managers, SMEs, QA Engineers, Product Owners, Business Owners and product stakeholders to drive outcomes.
• Direct technical governance of a product team.
• Evangelise and operationalise a standard or framework for use within the team.
• Contribute to a shared codebase.
• Work on proofs of concept and experiments based on the 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 the 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.

• 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‑to‑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.
• 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.

Success for a Senior Software Engineer joining our Recognition and Rewards team involves 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.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology