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 truly welcome. Join Paylocity as we shape the future of technology and the workplace!

Help Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology!

We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and a 401(k) match, as well as perks that support you, your family, and your finances. And if it’s career development you desire, we provide that, too! At Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business. 

Want to develop the strategies and principles needed to deliver compelling software? Join our team and help us enhance our all-in-one software platform, elevate our one-of-a-kind technology, and improve the employee experience.

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This is a fully remote position, allowing you to work from home or location of record within the U.S. with no in-office requirements. You must be available five days per week during designated work hours. The work arrangement for this role is subject to change based on business needs and individual performance. This may include adjustments to on-site requirements or schedule expectations, as necessary.

 About Us

At Paylocity, our modern HCM solutions and best practices are focused on creating delightful employee experiences that help drive positive outcomes and cultures within organizations, and are fueled by learnings within our own award-winning culture. We power over 35K businesses in the US alone and our HCM product is the fastest growing in the market. At Paylocity, you're more than a Senior Engineering Manager. In fact, your contributions will touch the lives of millions of people every day. Senior Managers of Engineering at Paylocity have a deep impact across a wide variety of business and technology decisions as we continuously seek to delight our users with a best in class modern workforce experience.

About the Role

At Paylocity, Senior Software Engineering Managers are technology-focused leaders that act as the bridge between engineering teams and the business strategies driving their outcomes. It is a highly critical role in our Product and Technology organization. This key leader serves as manager of managers, and is responsible for overseeing the work of multiple engineering teams in our Tax Compliance and Year End domain, enabling them to achieve their highest level of performance, efficiency, and customer needs. This position requires commitment to exceptional results, a strong desire for continuous improvement, and the ability to build a collaborative culture within the team.

Who you are:  

• Highly  effective Senior Engineering Manager who will lead multiple teams in a remote-first environment 
• A  supportive mentor and coach for engineering managers of various levels of experience, and being very involved with their teams as well
• Able to independently initiate, plan, and execute projects with high quality at  the velocity needed by the business
• At ease working at all levels of the organization
• Have an extreme sense of quality at scale, including complex A/B testing, automation, and documented test cases
• A superior communicator with a penchant for Slack usage
• Use hard data to make the decisions of where you want to invest
• Have up-to-date awareness of technology trends, and can help guide teams towards leveraging new technology where applicable
• Willingness to share your ideas in a collaborative environment with an open mind
• Are receptive to constructive feedback and unafraid to seek out suggestions from other orgs
• Able to break down the boundaries of ambiguity, fully understand your domain, and push your teams to deliver the right updates for the customer

What will you do: 

• Support and influence the strategy of your functional area through collaboration with your leadership
• Delve into highly complex systems and concepts in the Tax Compliance and Year End domain in order to guide your teams toward success
• Own the overall health and engineering quality of multiple related products and demonstrate your ability to scale and improve upon these systems
• Maintain an understanding of the future direction of the business and how that impacts your strategy
• Break down the complexity of projects, services, and processes while communicating with other engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders
• Work closely with other leaders across the org to coordinate and slot priority for cross-functional development efforts
• Speak confidently about project timelines, system architectures, engineering practices, quality and more
• Raise risks immediately while proposing ideal directional solutions to mitigate
• Help guide the teams in the creation of properly leveled estimates in order to set realistic expectations with stakeholders and leadership
• Establish routines and frameworks for efficient communication and decision making
• Keep your teams informed of broader initiatives throughout the organization and help them integrate when needed
• Negotiate delivery tradeoffs with your Product partners to ensure tech debt and maintenance work is managed appropriately
• Help your managers grow their skills and experience
• Actively seek and hire globally-distributed talent
• Conduct managerial interviews for candidates, and develop interview loops appropriate for the level of role being hired
• Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your teams
• Hold regular 1:1's with all of your direct reports as well as occasional skip-levels to ensure the overall health of your organization
• Give regular and clear feedback around individual's performance
• Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary
• Lead the team during operational incidents, root cause analysis, and identifying improvement areas to avoid repeat incidents
• Create opportunities for individuals for growth, recognize team members publicly for achievements, and reward team members appropriately for high performance
• Hold self, engineering managers, and engineering teams accountable for delivering high quality, secure, reusable, and scalable software
• Build and maintain a healthy relationship with product counterparts in the domain

What you bring: 

• BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent experience.
• 8+  years of experience in software engineering, with 3+ years in a leadership or management role driving success across multiple teams.
• Experience leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams in a SaaS or enterprise software environment
• A demonstrable level of successful strategy development along with proven  outcomes
• Collaborative project planning capabilities that factor in risk/reward tradeoffs, assumptions and confidence levels
• An exceptional ability to communicate with a collaborative demeanor
• A history of both direct and indirect influence using a data-driven approach
• A basic understanding of enterprise financial planning and management tools
• Familiarity with working in cloud technologies (preferably AWS)
• Good understanding of various architectural patterns like SOA and Microservices and the related advantages and trade-offs
• Experience leveraging observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog
• Versed in the design and development of API based platforms
• Must show passion for the role and take responsibility for the team’s deliverables
• Able to work effectively in a team environment in an agile fashion
• Practical and creative in problem-solving

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer.

Paylocity is committed to the 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. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better. 

We embrace and encourage our employees’ 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 our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers. 

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, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed.

The pay range for this position is $142,900 - $265,500/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.  This position is eligible for an annual bonus and restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here Benefits Link. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers.
 

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