Lead software engineer

Why UKG:

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. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That's what we do.

We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you'll get flexibility that's real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters-and so do you.

This is a great opportunity to put both your leadership and core engineering skillset to use. We are currently looking for a Software Engineer to deeply embed within our engineering team to deliver robust product features in an existing cloud-based, enterprise-grade codebase. As each of our customers is unique, you'll need to use your strong understanding of design patterns and help ensure that the broader team around you continues to deliver high-quality results while operating at the fast cadence of our business.

About the Team:

Your primary skillset should be in solving complex problems with simple engineering solutions. Most of your day will be invested in advancing our existing products to be best-in-class SaaS architecture with distributed patterns and microservices. You'll work alongside highly skilled team members who have a passion for solving problems well and will need to be ready to dive in and explore complicated requirements and diverse codebases as you design and deliver solutions.

About the Role:

• Design and deliver deeply technical feature sets

• Implement technologies that improve efficiency, performance, and reliability

• Develop and deliver innovative solutions to empower and enable customer requirements

• Drive improvements in availability, reliability, and performance of core systems: both monoliths & distributed applications

• Analyze and modify existing software as well as design, construct, and test commercial software that meets customer needs and delivers complete, on-time solutions

• Participate in full development lifecycle, including requirements analysis and design

• Drive work items related to client customizations or service implementation

• Write technical specifications based on conceptual design and stated business requirements

• Ensure ongoing product availability, serviceability, and maintenance

• Support, maintain, and document software functionality

• Analyze code to find causes of errors and revise programs as needed

• Subject matter expertise in feature area, inclusive of area ownership and responsibility for quality, understanding design patterns, and planning of team engagement to assist feature area

• Build reliable systems at scale as a feature team member

• Identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation.

• Assist customer support team in resolving outstanding customer issues

• Participate in on-call rotational duties

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

• 5+ years full-stack Perl development

• Master of relational databases, preferably MySQL, MariaDB or PostreSQL

• 8+ years experience in a SaaS business environment

• 8+ years experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, Linux)

• Knowledge and background in messaging integration patterns to support microservice patterns

• Commitment to end-to-end product and service quality, completeness, and the resulting experience

• Strong communication to articulate design, approach, and solution overview to both internal and external audiences

UKG is unable to offer sponsorship for this position

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.

Company Overview:

UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry - because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

UKG is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, disability, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.

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The pay range for this position is $29,500 to $170,000, however, base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and location. This position is also eligible for a short-term incentive and a long-term incentive as part of total compensation. Information about UKG's comprehensive benefits can be reviewed on our careers site at

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