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.
The Software Engineer III- Eng is a mid-level role within UKG's Payroll engineering organization. This position is for engineers who have moved beyond foundational development and are ready to take meaningful ownership of features, components, and technical decisions within UKG's payroll SaaS platform.
In this role, you will design, build, and support payroll services that operate at scale and must 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.
Key Responsibilities
Feature Ownership & Delivery
Own the design and implementation of 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.
Participate actively in design reviews, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
Payroll Processing & Domain Expertise
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.
System Design & Technical Judgment
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.
Balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
Engineering Excellence
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.
Collaboration & Mentorship
Collaborate effectively with product, QA, and platform teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
Share knowledge through documentation, code reviews, and technical discussions.
Mentor junior engineers through pairing, code feedback, and informal coaching.
Communicate clearly about technical tradeoffs, risks, and delivery timelines.
Basic Qualifications
3-6 years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong experience building backend services in .NET Core or similar modern frameworks.
Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and data modeling.
Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs.
Familiarity with distributed systems concepts such as concurrency, idempotency, and fault tolerance.
Ability to independently deliver features while collaborating within a team environment.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working in payroll, HCM, financial services, or other regulated domains.
Exposure to event-driven or batch processing architectures.
Experience supporting production systems, including on-call or incident response.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native deployment practices.
Experience modernizing legacy systems or contributing to significant refactors.
Basic familiarity with front-end integration patterns (e.g., Angular or similar)
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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It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process
For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com
The pay range for this position is $102,300 to $147,050. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation. Learn more about UKG's benefits and rewards at https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits
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