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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. 

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 Reporting Platform team is responsible for the ecosystem upon which all reports are run, as well as our Dynamic Report Builder and Report Writer tools. We are part of the larger Product & Technology organization.  

What you will do

• Recommend and implement improvements to team core processes
• Complete stories or subtasks where the approach is less defined, however the outcome is clearly defined
• Work with senior team members to pressure test their design or approach.
• Propose appropriate scope adjustments centered on delivering the right client outcome while considering technical debt impacts.
• Understand a large code base, contribute to it, and understand existing designs and technology choices to make appropriate adjustments to existing designs
• Ensure code exhibits good separation of concerns
• Work within the scope of a team with specific guidance from manager and collaborate with team members
• Find innovative ways to increase the quality and velocity of your work
• 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

What you will bring

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a similar technical field
• 2+ years’ hands-on experience with full-stack web development, with experience in Client-Side Programming and SQL
• Prior experience with .NET or Java
• Prior experience with React 
• Exposure to developing highly interactive applications
• A firm grasp of object-oriented analysis and design
• Prior experience working with relational databases
• Versed with Systems Architecture and developer tools
• Experience with unit testing and integration test automation
• Some experience working with modern REST API standards and concepts

Nice to have

• Some experience with Cloud Platforms Azure, GCP, or AWS (preferred) 
• Some experience with NoSQL databases 
• Experience using Snowflake DB 

What success looks like

As a Software Engineer within the Universal Reporting domain, you’ll have the opportunity to be involved in the development and support of our Product within a collaborative team environment. Your role is key in the delivery of new initiatives, engaging in collaborative discussion amongst the group on the most technically sound approach forward, and contributing to our SDLC to deliver new capabilities. You’ll work side-by-side with Product Owners, Software Test Engineers, and Business Stakeholders, and be actively involved in an agile software development environment.  

Universal Reporting is a complex Product domain and within our team you’ll have the opportunity to be involved in our path towards increased customer autonomy in exploring their data, delivering exciting new product capabilities, and working to solve key architectural challenges that will enable future growth and scale.

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   leavebenefits@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.

This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $84,100 - $156,100yr; 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.  

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