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*** This a hybrid opportunity requiring reporting to UKG's Montreal, QC office location starting from the first day of employment, 3 days per week and working remotely 2 days. ***

**Company Overview**

With 80,000 customers across 150 countries, UKG is the largest U.S.-based private software company in the world. We are on a mission to inspire organizations to become great workplaces through our award-winning HR technology. Our culture values diversity, inclusion, and employee well-being, offering benefits like wellness programs, tuition reimbursement, and U Choose, a customizable expense reimbursement program.

**About the role**

UKG is a leader in the HCM space, innovating with AI and developing generative AI solutions to transform HR. We seek talented AI Engineers to develop next-generation AI/GenAI products, working on impactful SaaS projects used worldwide. As a Software Engineer II, you will design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software solutions in a collaborative environment.

**Responsibilities:**

1. Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code for applications and systems.
2. GenAI Product Development: Engage in data collection, preprocessing, model training, evaluation, and deployment; research cutting-edge generative AI techniques.
3. Design and Architecture: Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders.
4. Code Review: Review peer code, providing constructive feedback following industry best practices.
5. Testing: Develop testable software, define and automate tests using tools like Junit, Selenium, and design patterns.
6. Debugging and Troubleshooting: Address defects and customer issues promptly and effectively.
7. Service Quality: Monitor service health, collaborate on incident management, and perform root cause analysis.
8. DevOps: Understand and begin to own responsibilities within a DevOps model, working with product management on requirements and deployment.
9. Documentation: Document features, fixes, and contribute to training materials.

**About you**

**Basic Qualifications:**

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of software development experience.
• Proficiency in Python, FastAPI, PyTest, Celery, and other Python frameworks.
• Experience with software practices, design patterns, version control (Git, GitHub), and issue tracking (JIRA).
• Basic understanding of cloud and DevOps principles.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

• Object-oriented programming, concurrency, REST APIs.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Terraform, GitHub Actions.
• Knowledge of AI/ML, GenAI, MLOps, frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, testing tools, GCP technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, Java, Scala — at least some of these are a plus.

UKG is committed to diversity and equal opportunity employment. We welcome all qualified applicants and provide accommodations for persons with disabilities at UKGCareers@ukg.com.