22 hours ago
Noida, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and delivery of complex software solutions for payroll, compliance, and enterprise applications.
- Design and develop scalable backend APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native services.
- Drive architectural decisions, performance optimization, modernization, and engineering standards.
- Use and promote AI-assisted practices for requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and operations.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, observability improvements, monitoring, alerting, and service reliability initiatives.
- Ensure secure coding, compliance, auditability, data governance, and secure handling of payroll, tax, financial, and personally identifiable information.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pair programming, and technical guidance.
- Own requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support across the full SDLC.
- Lead small to medium-sized projects and coordinate technical efforts across multiple contributors and teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong expertise in Java and/or Python development.
- Experience designing and delivering scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Strong SQL and data modeling experience.
- Hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure.
- Experience with Redis and/or Hazelcast or comparable distributed caching technologies.
- Strong experience with observability platforms such as Grafana, Kibana, or OpenTelemetry.
- Ability to lead complex technical initiatives from design through production and resolve complex production issues.
- Strong understanding of secure software development and sensitive customer data handling.
- Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools and workflows and an AI-first engineering mindset.
- Experience operating services throughout the full SDLC, with strong communication, collaboration, ownership, and technical leadership skills.
- Preferred experience includes payroll, tax, HR, fintech, compliance, regulated domains, U.S. or Canadian payroll processing, high-volume transaction processing, cloud-native microservices, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps practices, cross-team technical leadership, observability standards, and AI-assisted engineering adoption.
Benefits
- UKG offers real flexibility and benefits employees can count on.
- The position includes collaboration with engineering, product, architecture, compliance, operations, customer support, SRE, and platform teams; no specific work arrangement or location is stated.
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.