Lead AI-Native Platform Engineer

UKG; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 134,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to provide technical leadership in designing and deploying scalable, AI-native enterprise platforms. You will work across backend systems, CX platforms, and Salesforce integrations to power UKG’s workforce operating platform.

Responsibilities include driving AI/agentic orchestration, overseeing security, data privacy, and ensuring high-availability, with collaboration across product, business, and AI/ML teams.

Qualifications

• 7 years of professional software engineering with distributed systems.
• Deep backend design experience with RESTful/gRPC APIs and event-driven patterns.
• Hands-on AI/ML integration, LLM APIs, RAG pipelines, or agentic frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead scalable backend service design and API platforms.
• Drive AI-native architecture with LLMs and agentic orchestration.
• Design secure real-time data flows between UKG and Salesforce.

Skills

Backend architecture

AI/ML integration

Salesforce integration

Stakeholder communication

Job description

UKG is seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to provide technical leadership in designing and deploying scalable, AI-native enterprise platforms. You will work across backend systems, CX platforms, and Salesforce integrations to power UKG’s workforce operating platform.

Responsibilities include driving AI/agentic orchestration, overseeing security, data privacy, and ensuring high-availability, with collaboration across product, business, and AI/ML teams.