Director Github Software Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Job Summary:
UKG is a leading Workforce Operating Platform that focuses on workforce understanding and employee empowerment. They are seeking a Software Engineer III to lead projects and contribute to high-impact software solutions, focusing on design, development, testing, and maintenance of complex software systems while mentoring junior engineers.
Responsibilities:
• Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code for various software applications and systems.
• Technical Leadership: Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of complex software applications and systems, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance.
• Project Management: Manage execution and delivery of features and projects, negotiating project priorities and deadlines, ensuring successful and timely completion, with quality.
• Architectural Design: Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders and in the architectural design of new features and systems while ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Code Review: Diligently review code by other developers, provide feedback, and maintain a high bar of technical excellence to ensure code is adhering to industry standard best practices. Examples include but are not limited to following coding guidelines, supporting efficient and maintainable code, ensuring observability is built from the ground up, and effective unit and integration tests.
• Testing: Build testable software, define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using tools (e.g., Junit, Selenium), and design patterns leveraging the test automation pyramid as the guide.
• Service Health and Quality: Maintain the health and quality of services and incidents, proactively identifying and resolving issues. Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for action providing recommendations to optimize performance. Conduct thorough root cause analysis and drive the implementation of measures to prevent future recurrences.
• DevOps Model: Understanding of working in a DevOps model. Take ownership from working with product management on requirements to design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain the software in production.
• Documentation: Properly document new features, enhancements, or fixes to the product, contributing to training materials, and sharing knowledge with the team.
• Collaboration: Coordinate with other team members, product, and external team members to align and ensure the integrity and quality of the final solution
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 6 years of professional experience in software development.
• Strong proficiency in Java, React, and Typescript.
• Demonstrated experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Extensive experience with software development practices and design patterns.
• Proficiency using version control systems (e.g., GitHub) and bug/work tracking systems (e.g., JIRA).
• Solid understanding of cloud technologies and DevOps principles.
• Strong experience with front-end frameworks such as React or Angular.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective team collaboration.
Preferred:
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools, including TeamCity or GitHub Actions.
• Experience with test automation frameworks and tools.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
• Familiarity with developing accessible technologies.
• Dedication to supporting diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Company:
UKG™delivers HCM, payroll, HR service delivery, and workforce management solutions. It is a sub-organization of Hellman & Friedman. Founded in 1977, the company is headquartered in Lowell, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.