Staff Engineer Software

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.

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!

About the Team

The People Finder team is responsible for the continuous improvement and development of employee connections in Paylocity which includes Directory, Org Chart, and People Finder Profile. Our mission is to drive employee connections, engagement, sense of Community, and simplify administrative tasks by centralizing the platform actions around the people. At Paylocity, we want to be a place where every employee has a voice and feels truly welcome, appreciated, free to be themselves, and empowered and enabled to do their best work. The People Finder team helps support this vision by helping bring people together, one person at a time.

What you will do

• Work with Engineering Management: Partner with your Engineering Manager to align team goals with the company's broader objectives.
• Offer Technical Guidance: Support and mentor engineers through code reviews, architectural discussions, and ongoing coaching.
• Promote Best Practices: Encourage the use of coding standards and design patterns to keep codebases maintainable, efficient, and scalable.
• Commit to Software Quality: Focus on maintaining high software quality with automated unit and integration tests.
• Design Robust Software: Create software architectures that effectively manage multiple interacting components.
• Handle Risks and Priorities: Identify potential risks, manage priorities, and address any issues that could affect production quality.
• Support Team Health and Quality: Ensure the team s overall well-being and engineering quality by implementing solid testing, monitoring, and accountability practices.

What you will bring

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a similar technical field
• 5+ years hands-on experience preferred with full-stack web development, with experience in Client-Side Programming
• Fluency in C# .NET
• Proficiency in React and TypeScript
• Experience with MongoDB or equivalent NoSQL database technologies
• Experience with SQL or other relational databases
• Solid understanding of modern REST API standards and concepts
• Experience developing highly interactive applications
• A firm grasp of object-oriented analysis and design
• Experience with unit testing and integration test automation
• Fluent written and verbal communication skills that enable collaboration with technical or business-centric peers

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure, GCP, or AWS (preferred)
• Experience with message brokers (e.g. rabbitMQ)
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker)
• Experience with managing a large-scale SaaS production environment for availability, reliability, and resiliency

This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $92,936 - $201,701/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.

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 [email protected] . 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.