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 Benefits Setup teams are responsible for company benefits configurations and building a modern experience to allow new user bases to successfully input and manage benefits plans, premiums, and rules across 2 development teams.

The teams are comprised of motivated Engineers who have a high degree of collaboration, strong sense of ownership, and learn frequently to evolve and meet our shared vision. We also like to stay in the loop with new technologies by learning and experimenting. If that sounds like you, you've come to the right place! 

What you will do: 

• Drive development on front-end application from design to launch across 2 different workstreams
• Work in alignment with company mono-repo for our front-end applications
• Be the technical owner for the team's capabilities and systems 
• Be a trusted React subject matter expert for the team who is willing to lead by example 
• Collaborate with stakeholders to influence and translate business requirements to technical direction and component-based implementation plans 
• Engage with platform teams working on front-end related libraries and the mono-repo to leverage reusable components and internal tooling to accelerate team velocity 
• Uphold the bar for production service-level objectives and engineer towards operating at scale for our Benefits Setup domain 
• Be a mentor and coach for junior team members 
• Provide input to standards and prescribed design patterns for the larger tax organization 

What you will bring: 

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a similar technical field  
• 7+ years of relevant experience 
• Fluency in an enterprise-scale client-side framework, preferably React 
• Experience developing component-based front-end applications and integrating with back-end APIs 
• Hands-on experience designing and building resilient, scalable distributed backend systems for Enterprise scale 
• Solid understanding of modern REST API standards and concepts 
• Experience in designing API endpoints focused on interacting with a front-end application 
• Experience with various automated testing methodologies and continuous release concepts like CI/CD and feature flagging 
• Familiarity with Observability and Monitoring tools like Datadog or Kibana 
• Fluent written and verbal communication skills that enable collaboration with technical or business-centric peers 

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with agile software development methodologies 
• Prior experience working with modern Engineering systems that deal with benefits data 

What Success looks like:

• Addition of large capabilities to support the launch and incremental business logic improvements to our Benefits Setup application 
• Uphold and raise the bar for usability and accessibility for all of the components within our application 
• Prescribed architectural standards and design patterns for the larger organization to re-use 
• Solid partnership with Platform teams for high re-use of Engineering capabilities 
• Foster a culture of Engineering Excellence in the team 

EEO and Accessibility Statement 

This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $108,600 - $201,800/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 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.