Software Engineer III- Eng

As a Software Engineer III- Eng at UKG, you will design, build, and support payroll services that operate at scale and meet strict standards for correctness, reliability, and compliance. You will work independently on moderately complex problems, collaborate closely with senior and principal engineers, and help raise the overall quality and effectiveness of the team.

Requirements

• Design and implement well-defined payroll features or service components from development through production
• Break down moderately complex requirements into clear technical tasks and implement them with minimal oversight
• Ensure features meet functional, performance, and reliability requirements
• Implement payroll calculations, data transformations, and processing workflows with a strong focus on correctness and auditability
• Understand and apply payroll domain concepts such as earnings, deductions, taxes, retroactive changes, and off-cycle runs
• Handle regulatory-driven changes with guidance, ensuring solutions are robust and traceable
• Investigate and resolve payroll defects or production issues, including root-cause analysis and preventative fixes
• Contribute to the design of backend services, APIs, and data models within established architectural patterns
• Make sound technical decisions within your area of ownership, escalating risks or ambiguities when appropriate
• Identify code and design improvements that reduce complexity, improve reliability, or enhance performance
• Write high-quality, well-tested code and hold yourself and others to strong engineering standards
• Perform thorough code reviews, providing constructive and actionable feedback
• Apply best practices for logging, monitoring, error handling, and resiliency
• Contribute to refactoring and incremental modernization of existing payroll systems

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Benefits you can count on
• Competitive salary