Engineering Manager II

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.

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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 5 - 10 engineers and is responsible for driving workstream focused outcomes in our financial 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.  

About the team 

Marketplace mission is to empower businesses of all sizes to seamlessly connect, automate, and optimize their digital ecosystems. We are dedicated to simplifying the complexity of integrations by providing a diverse and dynamic marketplace of pre-built connections, APIs, and automation tools. By fostering collaboration among software providers and enabling effortless integration, we strive to unlock limitless possibilities for innovation, efficiency, and growth. 

We leverage AWS for infrastructure and continue to evolve our on-prem applications to the cloud, with backend applications in C# and front-end applications in ReactJS. 

As an Engineering Manager, you will manage a small, high performing Agile team to scale the product. 

You will be responsible for making sure the architecture scales to business need and code quality and efficiency meets business requirements. 

Are you the teammate we are looking for?

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 collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas 
• Able to work independently on modules and complete tasks with high quality and contribute to high velocity, but unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team members 
• Excited to work on cutting-edge technology 

During the first six months, you will: 

• Independently lead an engineering team in the development or enhancement of products, solutions, and processes 
• Understand, facilitate, and evolve the core processes of team (development, planning, on-call rotations, bug triage, metrics review, etc.) 
• Empower and unblock a team to deliver impact at a high velocity by establishing efficient execution and operational processes and hold the team accountable while cultivating a healthy team environment 
• Coach and mentor team members toward achieving expectations and progressing in their career 
• Work with a single team and product partners within a single domain that may contain multiple products or applications 
• Possibly own a domain that has multiple dependencies or outcomes. 
• Own the overall health and engineering quality of the product(s) owned within a domain or function 
• Independently lead the activities of a team towards execution on projects/goals that are often beyond the scope of immediate team 

Required Experience: 

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a similar technical field 
• Fluency in C# and relational databases (SQL, NoSQL) 
• Proficiency in AWS(preferred) , Azure or GCP  
• Help team in code reviews and make the right architecture decisions. 
• 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 
• Good to have Fluency in JavaScript or Typescript and in a modern frontend framework such as React

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 $129k - $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.