Software Engineering Manager

Paylocity; Región Centro; A distancia; MXN 600,000 - 800,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading HR solutions provider is seeking a manager for their Product & Technology team in Guadalajara, Mexico. The role involves managing a team to enhance software delivery and improve the employee experience. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree, 5+ years of managerial experience, and a strong understanding of cloud technologies. This position allows for remote work and offers competitive opportunities for career growth.

Formación

• 5+ years of managerial experience.
• Collaborative project planning skills that consider risk/reward.
• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies (preferably AWS).

Responsabilidades

• Manage a team focused on delivering customer-facing value.
• Own overall health and engineering quality of products.
• Mentor and grow engineers to reach career goals.

Conocimientos

Managerial experience

Technical communication

Agile methodology

Cloud technologies

Problem-solving skills

Educación

Bachelor's degree in engineering or similar field

Herramientas

AWS

DataDog

Atlassian Jira

Descripción del empleo

Overview

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 welcome. This position is in Product & Technology, with the candidate working remotely from Guadalajara, Mexico, and able to work within four hours of Eastern Standard Time. We use an Employer of Record model for compliance.

Help Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology. You will help develop strategies and principles to deliver compelling software and contribute to improving the employee experience as we evolve our all-in-one software platform and technology.

Take your career to the next level at one of G2\'s Top 100 Software Companies. Explore our Product & Technology positions to see where you fit.

What You Will Do (Responsibilities)

• Manage one of the teams focused on delivering customer-facing value within our Employee Platforms domain.
• Develop engineering practices with your team to foster a culture of engineering excellence and high-quality software delivery.
• Thrive in an agile environment with 2-week sprint cycles; act as an agile coach and continuously manage your team\'s backlog.
• Own overall health and engineering quality of your product and help scale and improve these systems.
• Break down complex projects, services, and processes; communicate with other engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Communicate confidently about project timelines, system architectures, and engineering practices.
• Raise risks early and propose directional solutions to mitigate them.
• Guide your team in creating properly leveled estimates to set realistic delivery expectations with stakeholders and leadership.
• Implement routines and frameworks for efficient communication and decision making.
• Keep your team informed of broader initiatives and help integrate them as needed.
• Negotiate delivery tradeoffs with Product partners to manage tech debt and maintenance work.
• Mentor and grow each engineer on your team to help them reach the next career level.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition in hiring and conduct interviews with interview loops appropriate for the role level.
• Foster psychological safety and hold regular 1:1s to ensure team health; provide regular performance feedback.
• Encourage technical decision making and make final decisions when necessary.
• Lead the team during major incidents, perform root cause analysis, identify improvements, and create incident post-mortems where applicable.
• Create growth opportunities, recognize achievements, and reward high performance.
• Maintain accountability for delivering high-quality, secure, reusable, and scalable software.
• Build and maintain a healthy relationship with product counterparts in the domain.

What You Bring (Qualifications)

• Bachelor\'s degree in engineering or similar field with 5+ years of managerial experience.
• A track record of strategy implementation with proven outcomes.
• Collaborative project planning skills that consider risk/reward, assumptions, and confidence levels.
• Excellent written and verbal technical communication.
• A data-driven approach with a history of both direct and indirect influence.
• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies (preferably AWS).
• Understanding of architectural patterns such as API-first, SOA, and microservices; knowledge of their trade-offs.
• Experience with observability/monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog).
• Familiarity with work management tools (e.g., Atlassian Jira).
• Experience designing and developing scalable API-based platforms.
• Passion for the role and accountability for the team\'s deliverables.
• Ability to work effectively in an agile, team-based environment.
• Practical and creative problem-solving skills.

If you are excited about Paylocity, the technology, and the opportunity, and can say yes to several or all of the criteria above, we\'re excited to hear from you. What are you waiting for?

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer.

Paylocity is committed to 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. We believe diversity makes us better. We embrace and encourage 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 ERGs and experiences to drive innovation.

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 [e-mail]. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests.