Senior Engineer Software - Payroll

Job Type: Full-time

Location: Remote (Must be in Guadalajara)

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! We are committed to building a world‑class team by hiring top talent globally. To ensure compliance, we use an Employer of Record model. Our ideal candidates would be based in Guadalajara, our surrounding areas, with right to work there, and be able to work within four hours of Eastern Standard Time.

Senior Engineer Software

About US

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.

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. Lead feature and epic design discussions, gathering and incorporating feedback from cross‑functional teams.

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.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Full‑stack engineering experience, specifically working on highly reliable large‑scale systems.
• 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.
• 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.
• Communication Proficiency: Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

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.

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 Ver el correo electrónico en click.appcast.io. 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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