About UKG
At UKG, we believe you're more than your work. Our benefits help you thrive personally and professionally, offering wellness programs and tuition reimbursement. We also offer U Choose, a customizable expense reimbursement program for over two hundred needs, from student loan repayment to childcare and pet insurance. Our inclusive culture, active and engaged employee resource groups, and caring leaders value every voice and support you in doing your best work. If you're passionate about our purposepeoplewe can't wait to support whatever gives you purpose. We're united by purpose, inspired by you.
About The Role
We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. This role offers the opportunity to lead projects and contribute to high-impact software solutions used by enterprises and users worldwide. As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll be responsible for the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of complex software systems, as well as mentoring junior engineers. You'll work in a collaborative environment, contributing to the technical foundation behind our flagship products and services.
We're seeking engineers with diverse specialties and skills to innovate and solve complex challenges. Our team is looking for strong talent with expertise in the following areas:
- Front End UI Engineer: UI/UX design principles, responsive design, JavaScript frameworks
- DevOps Engineer: CI/CD Pipelines, IAC proficiency, Containerization/Orchestration, Cloud Platforms
- Back End Engineer: API Development, Database Management, Security Practices, Message Queuing
- AI/ML Engineer: Machine Learning Frameworks, Data Processing, Algorithm Development, Big Data Technologies, Domain Knowledge
Responsibilities
- Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code for various software applications and systems.
- Technical Leadership: Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of complex software applications and systems, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance.
- Project Management: Manage execution and delivery of features and projects, negotiating project priorities and deadlines, ensuring successful and timely completion with quality.
- Architectural Design: Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders and in the architectural design of new features and systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Code Review: Be diligent about reviewing code developed by other developers, provide feedback and maintain a high bar of technical excellence to ensure code adheres to industry standard best practices like coding guidelines, elegant, efficient and maintainable code, with observability built from the ground up, unit tests, etc.
- Testing: Build testable software, define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using tools (e.g., JUnit, Selenium) and design patterns leveraging the test automation pyramid as the guide.
- Service Health and Quality: Maintain the health and quality of services and incidents, proactively identifying and resolving issues. Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for action, providing recommendations to optimize performance. Conduct thorough root cause analysis and drive the implementation of measures to prevent future recurrences.
- DevOps Model: Understand working in a DevOps Model. Take ownership from working with product management on requirements to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain the software in production.
- Documentation: Properly document new features, enhancements or fixes to the product, contributing to training materials.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Four plus years of professional software development experience.
- Deep expertise in one or more programming languages such as C#, .NET, Python, Java, or JavaScript.
- Extensive experience with software development practices and design patterns.
- Proficiency with version control systems like GitHub and bug/work tracking systems like JIRA.
- Understanding of cloud technologies and DevOps principles.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
- Experience with test automation frameworks and tools.
- Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
- Familiarity with developing accessible technologies.
- Dedicated to diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
