AI-Driven Platform Lead Engineer

UKG; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 134,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to drive AI-native platform design and scalable backend systems. You will mentor teams, influence architecture, and collaborate with AI/ML, product, and CRM integration teams to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.

You will champion reliability, security, and performance across global services, with emphasis on Salesforce integration and agentic AI orchestration in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on distributed, enterprise systems.
• Deep expertise in backend design, REST/gRPC APIs, event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML, LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic frameworks.
• Proven experience designing systems interfacing with Salesforce and enterprise ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable backend services and APIs for AI-native platforms.
• Drive AI integration and agentic orchestration with low latency and high availability.
• Ensure security, observability, and resilience with strong governance and SLAs.
• Collaborate across backend, AI/ML, product, and scalability teams to shape direction.

Skills

Lead Platform Architecture

AI Integration

Salesforce Integration

Backend Systems

Mentoring

Job description

UKG is seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to drive AI-native platform design and scalable backend systems. You will mentor teams, influence architecture, and collaborate with AI/ML, product, and CRM integration teams to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.

You will champion reliability, security, and performance across global services, with emphasis on Salesforce integration and agentic AI orchestration in a fast-moving environment.