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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 using Java and/or Python.
- Drive architecture, performance optimization, modernization, reliability, observability, and operational excellence initiatives.
- Lead production incident response, root cause analysis, monitoring, alerting, and long-term corrective actions.
- Ensure secure coding, data governance, auditability, and compliant handling of payroll, tax, financial, and personally identifiable information.
- Champion AI-assisted engineering practices across requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and operations.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pair programming, and technical guidance.
- Own work across requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- 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.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong expertise in Java and/or Python development.
- Proven 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 for distributed caching.
- Strong experience with observability platforms including Grafana, Kibana, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives from design through production and resolve complex production issues.
- Strong understanding of secure software development and handling sensitive customer data.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflows and an AI-first engineering mindset.
- Preferred experience includes payroll, tax, HR, fintech, compliance, high-volume transaction processing, cloud-native microservices, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, DevOps practices, and leading initiatives across multiple teams.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements and benefits are offered as part of UKG's employee experience.
- The role includes opportunities for mentorship, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration.
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.