4 days ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the Ready product’s architectural vision, technology stack, technical roadmap, and long-term engineering strategy.
- Design and build scalable, secure, reliable Java-based cloud-native services, distributed systems, backend services, APIs, event-driven workflows, and data-intensive applications.
- Lead architecture reviews, technical decisions, modernization initiatives, and complex cross-functional engineering programs across multiple teams.
- Drive observability, monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, service health, and reliability improvements.
- Lead performance engineering activities including capacity planning, load testing, profiling, query optimization, caching, benchmarking, and system tuning.
- Provide technical leadership for database design, data modeling, transaction management, indexing, schema evolution, and scalable data access patterns.
- Champion secure software design, authentication, authorization, encryption, auditability, compliance awareness, and enterprise readiness.
- Guide responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering, coding agents, intelligent automation, and AI-enabled operational tools.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, facilitate technical discussions, build consensus, and raise engineering standards.
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 proficiency covering modern frameworks, backend service development, concurrency, performance tuning, and scalable application design.
- Deep experience with relational databases, SQL optimization, schema design, transaction management, indexing, and database performance troubleshooting.
- Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native enterprise applications.
- Strong understanding of observability platforms, monitoring, logging, tracing, metrics, alerting, and production diagnostics.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms.
- Experience with performance engineering, profiling, load testing, capacity planning, caching, query optimization, and system tuning.
- Strong understanding of enterprise SaaS architecture, resiliency, availability, security, scalability, and operational readiness.
- Demonstrated ability to lead architecture discussions, define technical roadmaps, and influence engineering direction across multiple teams.
- Experience troubleshooting complex issues across application, infrastructure, database, and integration layers.
- Strong understanding of AI-assisted software engineering, AI tools, and agent-based development or automation models.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, mentoring, and technical leadership skills.
- Preferred qualifications include global enterprise SaaS experience, product-level technology strategy, Kubernetes, containers, DevOps, infrastructure automation, event-driven architecture, messaging, distributed caching, observability tools, cloud transformation, secure software development, compliance-aware design, and AI coding assistants or engineering agents.
Benefits
- UKG offers real workplace flexibility and benefits employees can count on.
- The posting describes an equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity and inclusion.
- Disability accommodation is available throughout the application and interview process.
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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.