Senior Software Engineer

Remote (Czech Republic)

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.

About the Team

The Sourcing team within Data Practice organization is focused on efficient collaboration between software and data engineering teams across Paylocity. We are engaging with various software engineering groups and helping them in implementing events-first engineering strategy and in building solid events-based data feeds to fuel and facilitate data engineering work.

What you will do

• Drive development of large-scale distributed eventing/messaging systems and its components

• Ship customer value iteratively with emphasis on reliability and resiliency

• Act as a technical lead completing epics where the approach is loosely defined often requiring technical discovery prior to implementation

• Advocate for best practices and a healthy balance of tech debt versus delivery

• Ensure the code is flexible, reusable, extensible, performant, and high quality through feedback on code reviews

• Demonstrate software quality through unit and integration test automation

• Be a trusted AWS EventBus and Messaging Platform subject matter expert

• 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

• Be a mentor and coach for less-experienced team members

• Solicit and provide feedback via decision-making frameworks for proposed changes from across the organization

• Push the team to continuously improve their knowledge, technical skill, and velocity

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

• Experience with Domain Driven Design, cloud-based solutions, leading large-scale delivery, and modernization of software systems

• Solid understanding of modern API-first and Events-first standards and concepts

• Good knowledge of using relational and non-relational databases at scale

• Experience with various automated testing methodologies and continuous release concepts like CI/CD and feature flagging

• Fluent written and verbal communication skills that enable collaboration with technical or business-centric peers

Nice to have

• Experience with product migration from data-center to cloud

• Experience with managing a large-scale SaaS production environment for availability, reliability, and resiliency

• Prior experience with AWS technologies

• Knowledge of CloudEvents specification

• Experience with NoSQL databases

• Familiarity with Observability and Monitoring tools like Datadog or Kibana

What success looks like

As a Senior Software Engineer within the Sourcing team of Data Practice organization, you will be expected to guide design and development within a collaborative team environment. Your role is key in implementing Events-first engineering strategy and enabling adjacent teams with efficient data exchange across various domains in the Paylocity ecosystem.

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer.

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