Software Engineer III- Eng

UKG • Sunrise, FL

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Engineer III IS AN individual contributor role within UKG’s Payroll engineering organization. This position is for an engineer who operate as technical leader across teams and driving operational excellence of critical payroll capabilities within UKG’s SaaS platform. In this role you will remain deeply hands-on while influencing technical direction, mentoring engineers, and ensuring UKG’s payroll systems meet the highest standards for correctness, scalability, security, and compliance in a regulated domain.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience in C# .NET or similar modern framework.
• Strong Experience with Microsoft SQL Server.
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Extensive experience with software development practices and design patterns.
• Proficiency with version control systems like GitHub and bug/work tracking systems like JIRA.
• Understanding of cloud technologies and DevOps principles.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in Payroll, HCM, financial services, or other regulated domains.
• Experience with Mongo Database.
• Experience of message brokers such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools like TeamCity or GitHub Actions.
• Experience with test automation frameworks and tools.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
• Experience in adapting GenAI agents such as Claude Code to improve performance and productivity

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.
• 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, 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees