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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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Software Engineer - Punch Team

At Paylocity, our modern HCM solutions and best practices are focused on creating amazing employee experiences that help drive positive cultures within organizations and are fueled by learnings within our own award-winning culture. We power over 35K businesses in the US alone and our HCM product is the fastest growing in the market. At Paylocity, you're more than an engineer. In fact, your contributions will touch the lives of millions of people every day. Software Engineers at Paylocity have a deep impact across a wide variety of business and technology decisions as we continuously seek to delight our users with a best-in-class modern workforce experience.

We are recruiting a Software Engineer for the Punch Team in the Time and Labor space. The Punch team plays a crucial role in our success, handling some of the highest volume services in terms of transactions across the organization. As Paylocity continues to grow rapidly, we are seeking a Software Engineer to join our team and help scale our current Punch APIs in a new cloud-native architecture to handle 10x the volume (and beyond!) that they currently handle now.

The Punch team is currently focused on completely rewriting our Punch APIs to be cloud-native and highly scalable. Some of the work we’re doing includes:

· Supporting existing punch systems via mobile, web, kiosk and hardware clock platforms

· Building a brand new backend asynchronous engine to provide scalable experiences for our clients

· Designing and integrating high observability dashboards and monitors via DataDog

· Ensuring we have robust load testing processes and frameworks in place to pressure test our work

· Main languages and frameworks are C#/.NET

· AWS services including API Gateway, EC2/ECS/Lambda, DynamoDB

· Product Engineer: Lead team members and collaborate with stakeholders to build and deliver large initiatives with a large team; Create highly resilient, scalable distributed back-end systems.

· Drive API architecture, review, and implementation using RESTful API design patterns.

· Agile Partner: Collaborate with cross functional teams and deliver meaningful iterations; leverage Agile methodologies and CI/CD to rapidly release new features.

· Operational Owner: Build and productionize highly scalable and tolerant systems using AWS; leverage internal tooling to accelerate product development cycles.

· Data Spelunker: Answer business questions and influence decisions using data; enable team members to answer questions with data that leverages quantitative and qualitative inputs.

· Often act as a technical lead for features or epics and complete features or epics where the approach is loosely defined and requires technical & design discovery prior to implementation

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

· Decompose outcomes into solutions composed of multiple software components interacting with each other

· Understand and consider technical dependencies

· Provide feedback via decision-making frameworks for proposed changes from across the org

· Work within the scope of a team and participate in driving cross-team collaboration

· Build something that you are proud of

· Learn something that you are excited about

· Find innovative ways to increase the quality and velocity of your work

· Exercise creativity and solve cool problems

· Demonstrate passion for writing quality software

· Demonstrate software quality through unit and integration test automation

· Strengthen your team by sharing your knowledge and interests with others

· Experience developing highly scalable applications

· Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code

· Experienced in relational and NoSQL databases

· Bachelor's degree in a computer science, engineering, technology related field or equivalent experience

· 2+ years’ hands-on experience preferred with full-stack web development

· Must be advanced in object-oriented design and development and unit-testing, and web pages using ASP.NET and/or ASP.NET MVC with C#

· Experience with AWS would be a plus

· Experience with DataDog is a major plus

· Experience with unit testing and integration test automation

· Must be adaptable to change and have a willingness to learn

· Must have a strong sense of curiosity

· Must be able to work effectively in an agile and team environment

· Must be effective and creative in problem solving

In this role, you will work alongside software engineers, product managers, and UX designers to own and drive efficiencies, code quality, and application health for the scheduling product suite. As a member of the team, you will be actively developing customer experiences and implementing performance improvements, helping to lead architecture decisions, and mentor other members of the team.

In the first 6 months you will:

· Analyze and spearhead improvements to the systems and software that are important to the team

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

· Make significant contributions in driving design, development, and delivery of new tools, as well as contributions to existing features.

· Improve our software’s quality in ways that can be measured and quantified

· Design software with multiple components interacting across systems

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 accessibility@paylocity.com.

This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $75,000 - $146,189/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual 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.