16 hours ago
Noida, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the WFM platform’s architectural vision, technology stack, technical roadmap, and long-term engineering strategy.
- Design and build scalable, secure, reliable cloud-native distributed systems, APIs, backend services, event-driven workflows, and data-intensive applications.
- Lead modernization, performance engineering, capacity planning, load testing, query optimization, caching, and scalability initiatives.
- Establish platform-wide observability, monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, service health, incident response, and reliability practices.
- Guide database architecture, data modeling, transaction management, indexing, schema evolution, and database performance troubleshooting.
- Promote secure software design, compliance-aware architecture, enterprise integration, operational readiness, and engineering quality standards.
- Evaluate and guide adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools, coding agents, intelligent automation, and agent-based development practices.
- Lead architecture reviews and cross-functional technical initiatives while mentoring senior engineers, technical leads, and development teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 16 years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building enterprise-scale software products.
- Strong Java expertise covering modern Java frameworks, backend development, concurrency, performance tuning, and scalable application design.
- Deep experience with relational databases, SQL optimization, schema design, transaction management, indexing, and performance troubleshooting.
- Experience designing large-scale distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native enterprise applications.
- Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, metrics, alerting, production diagnostics, resiliency, availability, security, and scalability.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and performance engineering practices such as profiling, load testing, capacity planning, caching, and system tuning.
- Ability to lead architecture discussions, define technical roadmaps, influence engineering direction across teams, troubleshoot complex technical issues, mentor senior talent, and communicate effectively.
- Preferred qualifications include enterprise SaaS experience, technology-stack and roadmap ownership, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, event-driven architecture, messaging, distributed caching, observability tools, cloud transformation, secure software development, and AI-enabled engineering tools.
Benefits
- Flexible work options and benefits are offered, with specific benefit details not provided in the posting.
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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.