23 hours ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Serve as a subject matter expert and technical advisor for complex systems, architecture, and engineering challenges.
- Lead architecture, design, development, modernization, and evolution of large-scale cross-domain software systems and platform capabilities.
- Design and develop scalable backend APIs, distributed systems, cloud-native services, and high-volume data-processing capabilities.
- Drive technical strategy, architectural decisions, technology evaluations, and roadmaps across multiple teams and domains.
- Own service health, reliability, scalability, observability, production readiness, incident response, root-cause analysis, and preventive improvements.
- Establish secure, privacy-conscious, compliant, maintainable, testable, and operationally ready engineering practices.
- Champion responsible AI adoption, lead proofs of concept, and develop reusable AI-enabled engineering tools and practices.
- Mentor engineers, lead architecture and technical knowledge-sharing sessions, participate in technical interviews, and raise the engineering quality bar.
- Lead complex initiatives and programs, resolve cross-team dependencies, and influence execution without relying on formal authority.
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Compliance, Customer Support, SRE, and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and leading complex enterprise software systems.
- Deep expertise in .NET development and experience architecting scalable backend services, APIs, distributed systems, and enterprise applications.
- Strong knowledge of distributed-system architecture, design patterns, scalability, resiliency, concurrency, performance, and data consistency.
- Strong SQL and data-modeling experience, cloud-platform experience, and experience with distributed caching technologies.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Grafana, Kibana, or OpenTelemetry.
- Ability to lead technically complex, multi-team initiatives and translate broadly defined business outcomes into executable technical solutions.
- Experience leading complex production incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and preventive improvements.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevOps practices, production operations, service ownership, secure software development, and sensitive customer data handling.
- Hands-on experience applying AI-assisted development tools and workflows to real engineering problems.
- Ability to mentor engineers, influence technical decisions beyond the immediate team, communicate complex concepts, and operate independently in ambiguous situations.
- Preferred experience includes payroll, tax, HR, fintech, compliance, financial systems, regulated domains, high-volume transaction processing, cloud-native microservices, platform modernization, system migrations, observability standards, performance engineering, resilient architectures, AI agents, engineering automation, technical roadmaps, and technical thought leadership.
Benefits
- UKG states that the role offers real flexibility and benefits employees can count on.
- The company emphasizes a collaborative environment with learning opportunities, continuous improvement, and shared success.
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About UKG
UKG builds cloud software for human capital and workforce management—HR, payroll, timekeeping, and scheduling—sold as SaaS to mid‑size and large employers. Formed in 2020 by the merger of Ultimate Software and Kronos, it is privately held by Hellman & Friedman and has dual headquarters in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Weston, Florida. Its platform helps organizations handle pay, compliance, and workforce planning across industries.