1 day ago
Lowell, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$134k - $191k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, modernization strategy, and governance for payroll platforms.
- Design and evolve scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable distributed systems across multiple teams and products.
- Provide hands-on development for complex, business-critical initiatives using modern backend and web architectures.
- Lead technical discovery, proof-of-concepts, architecture reviews, platform initiatives, and cross-team engineering improvements.
- Drive software quality, testing, automation, deployment readiness, observability, reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Lead production incident resolution and root cause analysis while defining service health metrics and SLOs.
- Evaluate and implement AI, Generative AI, LLM, machine learning, and intelligent automation opportunities.
- Mentor engineers, influence hiring and career development, and foster technical excellence and inclusion.
- Communicate technical strategy and build alignment with engineering, product, architecture, and executive stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Expert-level Java proficiency and strong modern backend architecture experience.
- Strong experience with React, TypeScript, and modern web application architectures.
- Deep understanding of microservices, event-driven systems, APIs, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Extensive experience with SQL, NoSQL databases, and large-scale data architectures.
- Strong expertise with cloud-native technologies and platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience leading architectural initiatives across multiple teams or product areas and implementing observability, reliability engineering, and operational excellence practices.
- Familiarity with AI technologies, Generative AI, LLM platforms, AI-assisted development tools, and enterprise AI adoption strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers at all levels, with exceptional communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- Preferred experience includes enterprise payroll, HCM, financial, regulated, or SaaS systems; AI platform integration; RAG; vector databases; agentic frameworks; machine learning systems; cloud modernization; security, compliance, privacy, and governance; open-source or technical community contributions; and measurable technology-driven business impact.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model requiring 3 days per week in the Lowell office; local candidates are highly preferred.
- UKG provides flexibility and employee benefits and rewards; additional performance-based bonus and restricted stock unit eligibility may apply.
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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.