Job Title: Software Engineer III- Eng Company Name: UKG Job Url: https://ukg.eightfold.ai/careers/job/893393966581?src=Job+Board+-+LinkedIn&jr_id=69d416bbcfdc6132f9457606 Job Description: Software Engineer III- Eng Sunrise,FL,United States Apply Now Add to Job Cart Find out how well you match with this job Upload your resume Job description Company and benefits Job ID SOFTW017748 Employment Type Regular Work Style hybrid Location Sunrise,FL,United States Travel Up to 25% Role Software Engineer III- Eng 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. About the role:  The Engineer III IS AN individual contributor role within UKG’s Payroll engineering organization. This position is for an engineer who operate as technical leader across teams and driving operational excellence of critical payroll capabilities within UKG’s SaaS platform. In this role you will remain deeply hands-on while influencing technical direction, mentoring engineers, and ensuring UKG’s payroll systems meet the highest standards for correctness, scalability, security, and compliance in a regulated domain.  Duties and 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.  Architectural Design: Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders and in the architectural design of new features and systems while ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.  Code Review: Diligently review code by other developers, provide feedback, and maintain a high bar of technical excellence to ensure code is adhering to industry standard best practices. Examples include but are not limited to: following coding guidelines, supporting efficient and maintainable code, ensuring observability is built from the ground up, and effective unit and integration tests.  Testing: Build testable software, define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests, 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: Understanding of 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, and sharing knowledge with the team.  Collaboration: Coordinate with other team members, product, and external team members to align and ensure the integrity and quality of the final solution *****UKG is unable to offer sponsorship for this position.***** ****This is a hybrid role, requiring three days per week onsite at our Sunrise, FL office.**** Basic Qualifications:  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.  • 4+ years of professional software development experience in C# .NET or similar modern framework. • Strong Experience with Microsoft SQL Server. • Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs. • 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. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment. Preferred Qualifications:  • Experience working in Payroll, HCM, financial services, or other regulated domains. • Experience with Mongo Database. • Experience of message brokers such as RabbitMQ or Kafka. • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools like TeamCity or GitHub Actions.  • Experience with test automation frameworks and tools.  • Knowledge of agile development methodologies. • Experience in adapting GenAI agents such as Claude Code to improve performance and productivity 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. View The EEO Know Your Rights poster UKG participates in E-Verify. View the E-Verify posters here. 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 $102,300.00 to $147,050.00 USD. 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 NOTICE ON HIRING SCAMS UKG will never ask you for a copy of your driver’s license, social security card, or passport during a job interview. For new hires, we do not ask for payment for equipment purchase, cost for training, or to receive onboarding documents. UKG does not make job offers outside of our formal hiring process. To help protect yourself against potential hiring scams, learn more about our formal hiring process, outlined here. ABOUT OUR JOB DESCRIPTIONS All job descriptions are written to accurately reflect the open job and include general work responsibilities. They do not present a comprehensive, detailed inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required for the job. 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