4 days ago
Noida, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable backend services, APIs, workflows, integrations, and data-driven product features.
- Own feature delivery from design through development, testing, deployment, observability, and production support.
- Serve as the technical lead for the scrum team by guiding design decisions, unblocking engineers, reviewing code, and mentoring developers.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, technical discussions, implementation, testing, and production readiness activities.
- Implement logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, and alerting, and troubleshoot application, database, integration, deployment, and runtime issues.
- Optimize application and database performance through query optimization, indexing, profiling, caching, load testing, and capacity improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with hands-on enterprise software development.
- Strong proficiency in Java, including backend services, object-oriented design, concurrency, debugging, and performance-aware coding.
- Strong experience with relational databases, SQL, schema design, indexing, query optimization, and transaction management.
- Experience building microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications.
- Experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, source control, agile software delivery, and observability practices.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues, lead team-level execution while coding, learn technologies quickly, and collaborate effectively.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with enterprise SaaS or large-scale cloud-native applications, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, containers, messaging platforms, distributed caching, event-driven systems, observability tools, performance testing, AI coding assistants, and developer mentoring.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements and benefits are offered, with no specific benefits or work-location details stated.
- UKG is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and provides disability accommodations during 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.