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 Money Movement Platform mission is to bring our payment experience under a single umbrella to enable modern treasury best practices, modern payment experiences, and quickly support new business opportunities. To enable this mission, our team is tasked with the development of a reusable platform that leverages cloud technologies, and to support our banking partners by developing advanced reporting capabilities to adhere to compliance requirements and industry-wide best practices.

What you will do

• Drive development of large-scale distributed backend systems from design to launch
• Ship customer value iteratively with emphasis on reliability and resiliency
• Be the technical owner for the team's capabilities and systems
• Be a trusted AWS 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 data-driven implementation plans
• Engage with sister teams to leverage reusable components and internal tooling to accelerate team velocity
• Uphold the bar for production service-level objectives and engineer towards 10x operating scale for our Money Movement System
• Be a mentor and coach for junior team members
• Provide input to standards and prescribed design patterns for the larger payroll compliance organization

What you will bring

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a similar technical field
• Fluency in C# .NET
• Experience developing event-driven systems using capabilities like RabbitMQ, Mass Transit, AWS SQS & SNS
• Hands-on experience designing and building resilient, scalable distributed backend systems for Enterprise scale
• Solid understanding of modern REST API standards and concepts
• Domain expertise in developing with AWS systems and capabilities
• Hands-on experience using data-stores (relational or non-relational) at scale
• 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
• Experience with product migration from data-center to cloud
• Prior experience working with banking and ledger systems 

What Success looks like

• Addition of large capabilities to support incremental business logic to our Money Movement Platform 
• Operating scale for 10x traffic in production to support 200,000 concurrent user workflows
• Uphold and raise the bar for reliability and performance to meet 99.9% or higher SLOs for golden signals
• 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

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 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.