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. 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 HR Platforms team provides a robust, scalable, and user-friendly platform that empowers developers to seamlessly build, deploy, and manage applications. We prioritize high performance, security, and reliability in our solutions.
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Document Library team. This team is responsible for three key domains: Document Library, a client administration hub that centralizes employee and company document management; and Fillable Forms, our in-house DocuSign® replacement that enables clients to seamlessly create custom PDF forms to attach to workflows for participants to complete and sign, and Content Resource Hub, a brand new domain specializing in serving up company resources in various spots across the suite. The technology driving these domains varies, but experience in AWS, .NET 8, and React is required.

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a related field is required. Equivalent practical experience will also be considered.
  

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YOUR ROLE:

• Develop High-Quality Software: Collaborate with product management and stakeholders to define, develop, and deliver critical features. You will actively contribute to the full software development lifecycle, from ideation and planning to deployment and support.

• Drive Technical Decisions and Solutions: Help lead architecture and design discussions, making key technical decisions that align with business goals and future scalability. You’ll ensure the implementation of best practices, coding standards, and system design to maintain high- performance, scalable solutions.

• Ensure Technical Documentation and Artifacts: Produce and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, API specs, and design patterns. These artifacts will ensure long-term maintainability and ease of future development.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with cross-functional teams including engineers, product managers, designers, and operations to translate customer and business requirements into technical solutions. You will also communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Optimize for Customer Value: Ensure that all development efforts are aligned with delivering high-quality, customer-centric solutions. You’ll focus on improving the user experience by reducing technical debt, enhancing performance, and ensuring system reliability.
• Mentor and Coach Team Members: Act as a mentor for junior engineers, providing guidance on technical challenges. You’ll foster a culture of continuous learning, code reviews, and knowledge sharing across teams.
• Stay Ahead of Emerging Technologies: Continuously evaluate and integrate new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies to keep the platform current, innovative, and competitive.

To be successful in this Senior Software Engineer role, you will bring:

• Proficiency in .NET: 5+ years’ experience in developing robust, scalable applications using C#. You should have a strong understanding of object-oriented programming and best practices in modern software development.
• Cloud Experience with AWS: Experience migrating, deploying, managing, and scaling applications on AWS, with familiarity in key AWS native services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda). You should have experience building and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and cost- effective.
• Front-End Expertise: Demonstrated ability to build user interfaces with React, focusing on performance, responsiveness, and usability. You’ll need experience working with component libraries, state management, and integrating front-end applications with APIs.
• Strong experience in designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs: Ability to create scalable, secure, and performant APIs, with a deep understanding of REST principles, best practices, and security measures (e.g., authentication, authorization, and rate-limiting). Experience with tools like Postman, Bruno, Swagger/OpenAPI, or similar API documentation and testing tools is essential.
• Strong Database Skills: Expertise in designing and optimizing databases using SQL Server, including writing complex queries, stored procedures, and optimizing database performance for high availability and scalability. MongoDB/NoSQL experience a big plus.
• Experience with Pub/Sub Messaging Systems: Hands-on experience working with pub/subsystems like RabbitMQ, designing distributed systems and message-driven architectures to buildscalable, real-time applications.
• Experience with CI/CD Pipelines: Understanding and implementing continuous integration andcontinuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools like TeamCity, Octopus, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline to speed up the release cycle and improve deployment reliability.
• Monitoring and Observability: Strong understanding of monitoring and observability practices using tools like DataDog or similar. You should have experience setting up alerts, dashboards, and metrics to monitor application performance, detect anomalies, and ensure system health. Familiarity with logging frameworks and APM tools to diagnose and resolve production issues is essential.
• Experience with Containerization: Familiarity with containerizing applications and managingdeployments in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes can accelerate DevOpsprocesses and improve scalability and consistency across environments.
• Experience with Performance Tuning and Optimization: Skills in profiling, tuning, and optimizing applications for performance, whether at the code, database, or infrastructure level, to deliver high-performance systems efficiently.
• Experience with Test Automation: Ability to work with test engineers to create new test automations or refactor existing automations to work with new functionality using tools like Cypress or Playwright.
• Strong Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to break down complex problems and design effective, efficient solutions that align with business goals. You should be comfortable making architectural decisions in ambiguous or evolving environments.
• Collaboration and Communication: Excellent communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including product management, operations, and other engineering teams. You should be comfortable explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with Agile Methodologies: Deep understanding of agile development practices, including Scrum or Kanban, which can help accelerate delivery and ensure alignment with business priorities. Understanding what works (and what doesn’t) with various project management methodologies will be beneficial