Senior Software Engineer

What you will do:

• Comprehend customer needs and business goals  
• Implement features to realize these goals  
• Advocate for best practices and a healthy balance of tech debt versus delivery  
• Engage with your team in design discussions  
• Ensure code is flexible, reusable, extensible performant, and high quality through feedback on code reviews  
• Understand and consider technical dependencies  
• Work within the scope of a team and participate in cross-team partnership
• Find innovative ways to increase the quality and velocity of your work  
• Demonstrate software quality through unit and integration test automation  
• Strengthen your team by sharing your knowledge and interests with others  
• Build relationships and communicate with various types and levels of stakeholders across the organization  
• Manage risks, escalate priorities, and help to resolve issues that could impact production quality  

What you will bring:

• 4+ years’ hands-on experience of commercial software development  
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a similar technical field or equivalent work experience. 
• Proven expertise with .NET (6+) and proficiency with Git  
• A firm grasp of object-oriented analysis and design  
• Solid knowledge of relational databases including DB programmability  
• Experience with unit testing and integration test automation  
• Solid command of REST API standards and concepts  
• Basic experience with containerization (i.e., Docker, K8s/Kubernetes) 

Nice to have: 

• Advanced knowledge of MS-SQL (optimization queries) 
• Experience with micro-service architecture and eventing  
• Experience with observability and large scale zero-downtime deployment   
• Prior experience with Azure, GCP, or AWS (i.e., S3, Lambda, CDK) (preferred) 
• Knowledge of The Twelve-Factor App (12factor.net)opens in a new tab principles  
• Experience with NoSQL databases 

What success looks like: 

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Import team, you’ll have the opportunity to be involved in the development and support of critical platforms that impact every user within the Paylocity suite. Your role is key in the delivery of new initiatives, engaging in collaborative discussion amongst the group on the most technically sound approach forward, and contributing to deliver new capabilities. You’ll work side-by-side with Product Managers, Software Test Engineers, and Business Stakeholders, and be actively involved in an agile software development environment.