At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That’s what we do.
Requirements
- Define and evolve the technical strategy for highly scalable, fault-tolerant payroll processing agents and services
- Guide architecture across distributed systems built primarily on.NET Core, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Angular
- Enable and integrate AI-driven capabilities—including intelligent automation, anomaly detection, and decision-support systems—into mission-critical payroll workflows
- Lead architecture and design reviews; set standards for system design, code quality, and operational readiness
- Design and optimize high-throughput payroll calculation engines and batch/near-real-time processing pipelines
- Build systems that handle complex payroll rules, country/state variations, and edge cases with deterministic accuracy
- Ensure strong transactional integrity, auditability, and traceability across payroll workflows
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues involving data consistency, performance bottlenecks, or distributed processing failures
- Partner with AI, data science, and applied ML teams to integrate AI-driven capabilities into payroll processing flows
- Translate AI and analytical requirements into scalable, production-grade software designs
- Enable intelligent automation, anomaly detection, forecasting, or recommendations without owning model creation
- Design systems that support explainability, monitoring, and safe rollout of AI-assisted features in regulated environments
- Design data models and persistence strategies across relational (Postgres, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) systems
- Ensure efficient schema evolution, data partitioning, and performance optimization at scale
- Build and evolve APIs and services that expose payroll and analytical data securely and reliably
- Collaborate with front-end teams to support Angular-based applications and workflows
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; guide design discussions and complex implementation efforts
- Influence technical direction across teams and initiatives beyond immediate ownership
- Partner with product, compliance, and security stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions
- Drive long-term technical vision while balancing delivery of near-term business value
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Generous benefits
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- Inclusive and supportive work environment
- Performance-based bonus plan
- Restricted stock unit awards
