Senior Engineer Software - Vortex Team (Backend, Fixed Term Employment)

Senior Software Engineer (Back-End)

Remote (Czech Republic)

****This is a Fixed-Term 6-Month Employment ****

Location: Remote (Must be based anywhere in the Czech Republic)

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!

Senior Software Engineers are members of our product teams responsible for creating, enhancing, and supporting standard features. Working side-by-side with Product Owners, Software Test Engineers, and Business Stakeholders, they are actively involved in the complete software development life cycle in an agile environment, including technical design, hands-on coding, unit testing, integration testing, performance tuning, maintenance, test automation, deploys, and upgrades.

Senior Software Engineers also work closely with DevOps, DBAs and Systems Engineers to make deployments easier to improve team velocity and overall quality of delivery. They design, develop and contribute to some of the most important functionality happening in the product category. They also mentor, coach, and empower technical team members while still taking a very active role in developing solutions.

Who you are:

Engineering is the function that applies principles and techniques of engineering, mathematics, and computer/data science to the design, development, and testing of applications. The Product & Technology engineering family consists of software development, testing, database, devops, virtualization & network.

• Enthusiastic about developing the best software available and providing the ultimate customer experience.
• An advocate for continuous improvement of our software development process.
• Interested in staying current by applying new technologies.
• Able to work in a fast-paced collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas.
• Able to work independently on modules, complete tasks with high quality standards, contribute meaningfully to a high velocity .environment, and be unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team members.
• Excited to work on cutting-edge technology.

How we work:

• Curiosity and candor; the quality of the idea wins the day.
• Casual, focused, and agile environment operating under our shared principles.
• Customers at the center of everything we do.
• Small, mission-focused squads with an entrepreneurial spirit backed by enterprise investments.
• Consistent routines across stakeholders to ensure complete transparency.
• Close working relationship between executive stakeholders and customers.

What we offer:

• A compelling mission to elevate payroll and human resources across the backroom and into the boardroom.
• Focus on helping our customers automate manual processes, appeal to the modern workforce, and glean insights from analytics.
• Lean enabling process that focuses on putting our customers at the center of everything we do.
• A commitment to investing in our products, hiring the best talent, and giving them the chance to meaningfully contribute to a vast market opportunity.
• Ample opportunity and encouragement to stay current with external training.
• A phenomenal talent anywhere culture, where employees can work remotely anywhere.

During the first six months, you will:

• Understand customer needs and business goals.
• 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.
• Advocate for best practices and a healthy balance of tech debt versus delivery.
• Actively mentor/coach less-experienced team members.
• 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 othe.r
• 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.
• Do the best work of your career so far.
• Find innovative ways to increase the quality and velocity of your work.
• Exercise creativity and solve cool problems.
• Demonstrate passion for writing quality software.
• Contribute to a shared code base.
• Demonstrate software quality through unit and integration test automation.
• Strengthen your team by sharing your knowledge and interests with others.
• Build relationships and communicate with various types and levels of stakeholders across the organization.
• Analyze and spearhead improvements to the systems and software that are important to your team.
• Manage risks, escalate priorities, and help to resolve issues that could impact production quality.

Required Experience:

• Experience developing highly interactive applications.
• A firm grasp of object-oriented analysis and design.
• Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code.
• Good knowledge of relational databases.
• Must be well versed in Systems Architecture and developer tools.
• 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 commit to their role and take responsibility for their tasks.
• Must be able to work effectively in an agile and team environment.
• Must be effective and creative in problem solving.

Must have hands on experience with at least two of the following:

• 5 + years building and deploying RESTful APIs using .NET Core or Nodejs within an Agile Scrum Methodology.
• 5+ years of experience with SQL and/or NoSQL.
• 5+ years of cloud experience, AWS preferred.
• Experience developing highly performing/high volume applications.
• Experience with API Gateway, Lambda, S3 and WebSockets a plus.

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.

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