Software Engineering Manager

Overview

Paylocity is a cloud-based software company that creates customized HR solutions for small to mid-sized organizations. Our workplace enhances communication and enables employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere. Our award-winning culture ensures everyone has a voice and feels welcome. This position is in Product & Technology, with the candidate working remotely from Guadalajara, Mexico, and able to work within four hours of Eastern Standard Time. We use an Employer of Record model for compliance.

Help Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology. You will help develop strategies and principles to deliver compelling software and contribute to improving the employee experience as we evolve our all-in-one software platform and technology.

Take your career to the next level at one of G2\'s Top 100 Software Companies. Explore our Product & Technology positions to see where you fit.

What You Will Do (Responsibilities)

• Manage one of the teams focused on delivering customer-facing value within our Employee Platforms domain.
• Develop engineering practices with your team to foster a culture of engineering excellence and high-quality software delivery.
• Thrive in an agile environment with 2-week sprint cycles; act as an agile coach and continuously manage your team\'s backlog.
• Own overall health and engineering quality of your product and help scale and improve these systems.
• Break down complex projects, services, and processes; communicate with other engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Communicate confidently about project timelines, system architectures, and engineering practices.
• Raise risks early and propose directional solutions to mitigate them.
• Guide your team in creating properly leveled estimates to set realistic delivery expectations with stakeholders and leadership.
• Implement routines and frameworks for efficient communication and decision making.
• Keep your team informed of broader initiatives and help integrate them as needed.
• Negotiate delivery tradeoffs with Product partners to manage tech debt and maintenance work.
• Mentor and grow each engineer on your team to help them reach the next career level.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition in hiring and conduct interviews with interview loops appropriate for the role level.
• Foster psychological safety and hold regular 1 : 1s to ensure team health; provide regular performance feedback.
• Encourage technical decision making and make final decisions when necessary.
• Lead the team during major incidents, perform root cause analysis, identify improvements, and create incident post-mortems where applicable.
• Create growth opportunities, recognize achievements, and reward high performance.
• Maintain accountability for delivering high-quality, secure, reusable, and scalable software.
• Build and maintain a healthy relationship with product counterparts in the domain.

What You Bring (Qualifications)

If you are excited about Paylocity, the technology, and the opportunity, and can say yes to several or all of the criteria above, we\'re excited to hear from you. What are you waiting for?

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer.

Paylocity is committed to full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We believe diversity makes us better. We embrace and encourage differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through ERGs and experiences to drive innovation.

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact leavebenefits@paylocity.com. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests.

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