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Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services, APIs, distributed components, and cloud-native capabilities for the Ready product.
- Own complex technical deliverables from design through implementation, testing, release, and production support.
- Design scalable software components involving distributed systems, microservices, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, and enterprise integrations.
- Evaluate and evolve application frameworks, databases, messaging, caching, observability, and cloud-native services.
- Troubleshoot production issues across application, database, infrastructure, integration, and deployment layers.
- Improve observability, monitoring, telemetry, logging, alerting, operational readiness, and reliability practices.
- Tune application and database performance through profiling, load testing, benchmarking, query optimization, indexing, caching, and scalability analysis.
- Contribute to architecture discussions, technical roadmaps, modernization efforts, and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Apply AI-assisted development tools and identify opportunities for agents and intelligent automation in engineering workflows.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, debugging support, and engineering best practices.
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, including enterprise-scale software development.
- Strong hands-on proficiency in Java, backend service development, object-oriented design, concurrency, performance tuning, and modern Java frameworks.
- Strong experience with database technologies, SQL, schema design, indexing, query optimization, transaction management, and database performance troubleshooting.
- Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, REST APIs, event-driven components, and cloud-native applications.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, metrics, alerting, and production diagnostics.
- Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues across application, database, infrastructure, and integration layers.
- Understanding of performance engineering, profiling, load testing, caching, query tuning, and scalability analysis.
- Practical understanding of AI-assisted engineering tools, AI agents, and emerging automation capabilities.
- Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and mentoring skills.
- Preferred: experience with enterprise SaaS products, technical roadmaps, platform modernization, cloud transformation, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code, observability tools, distributed caching, messaging, asynchronous processing, secure software development, and AI coding assistants.
Benefits
- UKG offers real workplace flexibility and benefits employees can count on.
- The company supports diversity and inclusion and provides disability accommodations during the recruitment 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.