Senior Engineer Software Scheduling Team

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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.




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 recruiting a Senior Software Engineer for the Scheduling Team in the Time and Labor space.

Scheduling is currently working on some of the most critical products at Paylocity.

We are on a mission to improve workplace happiness and reduce turnover by increasing manager efficiency and empowering employees to take more control of their work and lives.



Scheduling’s technical footprint covers a breadth of areas some examples are:

+ Recently upgraded front end to ReactJS for Supervisor and Employee experiences

+ An API-first strategy to deliver integrations and experiences outside of the Scheduling domain

+ Near real-time communication with front end experiences through WebSockets

+ Backend asynchronous processing engine to provide scalable experiences for clients

+ CQRS and Vertical Slice Architecture

+ Implementation of Event Driven Design

+ Main languages and frameworks are C#/.NET and React

What you will do:

+ Product Engineer: Lead team members and collaborate with stakeholders to build and deliver large initiatives with a large team; Create highly resilient, scalable distributed back-end systems.



+ Drive API architecture, review, and implementation using RESTful API design patterns.

+ Agile Partner: Collaborate with cross-functional teams and deliver meaningful iterations; leverage Agile methodologies and CI/CD to rapidly release new features.



+ 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.

+ 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

+ 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 cool 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

What you will bring:

+ Experience developing highly scalable applications

+ Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code

+ Well versed in Software architecture patterns and techniques

+ A proven track record in solving architectural problems

+ Experienced in 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

+ Must be advanced in object-oriented design and development and unit-testing, and web pages using ASP.NET and/or ASP.NET MVC with C#

+ Experience with unit testing and integration test automation

+ Must be adaptable to change and have a willingness to learn

+ Must have a strong sense of curiosity

+ Must be able to work effectively in an agile and team environment

+ Must be effective and creative in problem solving

+ Able to work off-hours and weekends as the need arises

What success looks like:

In this role, you will work alongside software engineers, product managers, and UX designers to own and drive efficiencies, code quality, and application health for the scheduling product suite.

As a senior member of the team, you will be actively developing customer experiences and implementing performance improvements, helping to lead architecture decisions, and mentor other members of the team.



In the first 6 months you will:

+ Analyze and spearhead improvements to the systems and software that are important to the team

+ Advocate for best practices and a healthy balance of tech debt versus delivery

+ Make significant contributions in driving design, development, and delivery of new tools, as well as contributions to existing features.

+ Improve our software’s quality in ways that can be measured and quantified

+ Design software with multiple components interacting across systems

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 accessibility@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.
The pay range for this position is $98,200 - $182,400/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This position is eligible for a restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here Benefits Link (https://px.sequoia.com/prospect/gacc-caf23ca0-0fdc-11f0-8761-139060d2fe23) .

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.




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