Manager II Engineering - Payroll

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. 

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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 10 engineers and is responsible for driving workstream focused outcomes in our payroll 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 in a remote first environment
• 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 continuous improvement of automated testing 
• Strongly talented in both written and verbal technical communication 
• Steadfast in your desire for production stability, observability, and alerting, 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 nebulous situations 

What will you do: 

• Manage the Payroll Experience team, which is one of the most critical teams in our entire suite. The teams’ ownership includes payroll entry, the on-demand pay system, pro-rated/retro pay, as well as our mobile payroll experience. 
• Delve into highly complex systems and concepts in the payroll domain in order to guide your team toward success 
• Work with your team and leaders to develop good engineering practices, creating a culture of engineering excellence 
• Thrive in an agile environment with 2 week sprint cycles, be an agile coach and continuously managing your teams’ backlog 
• 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 mentor and grow each one of your engineers to help them achieve the next level of their careers 
• 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 1:1s with 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 major incidents 
• Perform root cause analysis 
• Identify improvement areas to avoid repeat incidents 
• Creating and delivering incident post-mortems where applicable 
• 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 
• An exceptional ability to communicate with a collaborative demeanor 
• A history of both direct and indirect influence using a data-driven approach 
• 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 
• 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 highly scalable modern 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 

If you are excited about Paylocity, the technology, the team, the project, and can say yes to several or all of the criteria above, we're excited to hear from you. What are you waiting for? 

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. 

This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $130k - $240k/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual bonus and 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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