Manager II Engineering - Frontend

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. 

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About the Team:

At Paylocity, Software Engineering Managers are technology focused leaders that act as the bridge between an engineering team’s outcomes and the business strategies driving those outcomes.? It is a critical role in our Product and Technology organization. This key role serves as manager of a team of roughly 5 - 10 engineers and is responsible for driving workstream focused outcomes in our financial domain, while working to achieve a high level of performance and efficiency.? This position requires commitment to exceptional results, a strong desire for continuous improvement and the ability to build a collaborative culture within the team.? 

Who you are: 

• Highly collaborative Engineering leader who will lead a team of software and test engineers. 
• A supportive mentor and coach for your team members of various levels of experience? 
• Able to collaborate on project planning, leveraging your team to optimize for high quality at the velocity needed by the business.? 
• At ease working at all levels of the organization.? 
• An advocate for quality and controls.? 
• A superior communicator with a penchant for change management.? 
• Steadfast in your desire for production stability, ensuring a top-notch customer experience.? 
• A proponent of data-driven decision making.? 
• Driven to stay current by learning and applying new technologies and tools to help guide teams through challenges.? 
• Willingness to share your ideas in a collaborative environment with an open mind to receive constructive feedback and unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team members.? 
• Adaptable to change and pivot based on situational challenges.?? 
• Able to deal with ambiguity and guide your team through ambiguous situations. 

What you will do:

• Delve into highly complex systems and concepts in the financial domain in order to guide your team toward success. 
• Own the overall health and engineering quality of your product and demonstrate your ability to help scale and improve upon these systems. 
• Break down the complexity of projects, services, and processes while communicating with other engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders. ? 
• Speak confidently about project timelines, system architectures, engineering practices, quality and more. 
• Raise risks immediately while proposing potential directional solutions to mitigate. 
• Help guide your team in the creation of properly leveled estimates in order to set realistic expectations with stakeholders and leadership.  
• Implement routines and frameworks for efficient communication and decision making.? 
• Keep your team informed of broader initiatives throughout the organization and help them integrate when needed. 
• Negotiate delivery tradeoffs with your Product partner to ensure tech debt and maintenance work is managed appropriately. 
• Help your engineers achieve the next level of their career. 
• Work with Talent Acquisition partners in the hiring process to build a high functioning team. ? 
• Conduct interviews for candidates, and develop interview loops appropriate for the level of role being hired. 
• Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team.? 
• Hold regular 1:1's with all of your direct reports?to ensure the overall health of your organization is understood. 
• Give regular and clear feedback around individual's performance. 
• Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary  
• Lead the team during operational incidents, root cause analysis, and identifying improvement areas to avoid repeat incidents.? 
• Create opportunities for individuals for growth, recognize team members publicly for achievements, and reward team members appropriately for high performance. 
• Hold yourself and your team accountable for delivering high quality, secure, reusable, and scalable software. 
• Build and maintain a healthy relationship with product counterparts in the domain. 

What you bring: 

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or similar with 5+ years of managerial experience. 
• A demonstrable level of successful strategy implementation along with proven outcomes. 
• Collaborative project planning capabilities that factor in risk/reward tradeoffs, assumptions and confidence levels. 
• Proven ability and experience of managing front-end engineering teams. 
• An exceptional ability to communicate with a collaborative demeanor. 
• A history of both direct and indirect influence using a data-driven approach. 
• A basic understanding of enterprise financial planning and management tools. 
• Hands-on experience working in cloud technologies (preferably AWS). 
• Working understanding of various architectural patterns like SOA and Microservices and the related advantages and trade-offs. 
• Working understanding of web technologies such as Javascript, ReactJs, Angular. 
• Experience leveraging observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog. 
• Exposure to work management tools such as Atlassian’s Jira. ? 
• Versed in the design and development of API based platforms. 
• Must show passion for the role and take responsibility for the team’s deliverables. 
• Able to work effectively in a team environment in an agile fashion.? 
• Practical and creative in problem-solving. 

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