Manager, Software Engineering I

Paychex•Cincinnati, OH

21h

About The Position

Manager, Software Engineering I Paychex is reimagining how businesses manage their workforce by bringing payroll, HR, benefits, and advisory services together into a single connected HCM platform. As Paychex and Paycor come together, we're combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, AI, and human expertise to help organizations work smarter, support their people, and achieve better business outcomes. This is an exciting time to join our team as we continue to invest in innovation, simplify client experiences, and shape the future of work. At Paychex, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, make a meaningful impact, and be part of something bigger as One Paychex. Overview Tax team is looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join their team! The Tax development team is responsible for maintaining and enhancing a cloud‑native application that computes taxes and generates tax returns for our clients. We work with a wide variety of technologies such as Angular, React, Docker, OpenShift, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Java 21, and the Spring framework. We responsibly adopt enterprise‑approved AI tools to improve developer productivity, automate testing and documentation, and enable domain capabilities. We partner closely with Product, Operations, Compliance, and Finance to design secure, scalable, and audit‑ready solutions. Our agile environment consists of multiple cross‑functional teams (product owner, scrum master, analysts, software developers, and test automation engineers) working in two‑week sprints. Software is released through a Continuous Delivery pipeline leveraging build, test, and deployment automation, enabling frequent releases to our customers and internal partners. This role is hands‑on in technical leadership and delivery oversight, while not primarily focused on day‑to‑day coding. You will balance people leadership, execution, architectural direction, and responsible AI adoption to continually improve our tax platform and customer outcomes.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer related discipline - Preferred
7 years of experience in Related field.
2 years of experience in supervisory, management, project leadership, or project management.
Angular, React
Java 21, Spring Boot/Spring Cloud
RabbitMQ, Kafka
MongoDB and related data stores
Docker, OpenShift
CI/CD automation for build, test, security scanning, and deployments
AI tools and platforms: enterprise‑approved code assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code), test generation and documentation assistants

Responsibilities

Participates in the interview and hiring process.
Prepares and administers annual reviews and development plans, makes promotion and salary recommendations.
Responsible for personnel planning and the allocation of team members to meet Enterprise Development project needs.
Identifies and mentors’ future leaders / managers for company growth.
Provides support and assistance to several agile development teams and their scrum masters.
Has strong working knowledge of agile development principles.
Helps to remove roadblocks that agile teams are unable to solve by themselves.
Provides input to product owners on the product strategy and vision.
Gives feedback to the product owners on the content and prioritization of the product backlog.
Builds relationships with other IT departments and business units and mitigates conflict to facilitate inter-department communication and agile team progress in order to meet business objectives.
Acts as a catalyst for change to improve applications or processes which benefit IT and/or the business unit.
Demonstrates application knowledge and understands functionality of applications outside their area of expertise to identify potential impacts and make recommendations to minimize the impacts.
Responds to questions from other IT departments and business units and coordinates resolution of critical issues to provide support for production applications.