Lead AI-Native Backend Architect for Enterprise Platform

UKG; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 134,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to provide technical leadership across backend systems, AI-native platforms, and Salesforce integrations. You will shape architecture, drive scale and security, and mentor senior engineers while partnering with product, AI/ML, and business teams to translate complex objectives into resilient platform solutions.

This role blends cloud-native design with agentic AI, requires 7+ years of experience building enterprise SaaS platforms, and offers

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with design ownership of distributed, highly available enterprise systems.
• Deep expertise in backend system design, RESTful/gRPC APIs, event-driven patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable backend services and APIs.
• Integrate LLM-based AI and agentic orchestration into core architecture.
• Secure, real-time data flows with Salesforce integrations.

Skills

7+ years exp

Backend systems

AI integration

Salesforce integrations

Job description

UKG is seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to provide technical leadership across backend systems, AI-native platforms, and Salesforce integrations. You will shape architecture, drive scale and security, and mentor senior engineers while partnering with product, AI/ML, and business teams to translate complex objectives into resilient platform solutions.

This role blends cloud-native design with agentic AI, requires 7+ years of experience building enterprise SaaS platforms, and offers