Remote AI-Driven Payroll Lead Engineer

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Greenshades is seeking a Development Lead to own delivery for the Payroll product line, guiding a team of engineers and partnering with Product Management to translate priorities into reliable software.

You will combine hands-on senior development with people leadership, mentoring engineers, and championing AI-assisted development practices as a core part of daily work, while aligning with a cross-functional, AI-first engineering strategy.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-stack experience with C#, Angular, and SQL.
• 2+ years mentoring and leading cross-functional teams.
• 2+ years in HCM or related domain.
• Experience with Git and Azure-based development workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Interest in AI-assisted development and adoption.
• Ability to communicate tradeoffs and risks clearly.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day delivery for the Payroll development team, ensuring committed work ships on time and at a high quality bar.
• Contribute directly as a senior-level developer on complex Payroll and Tax features, setting the technical standard for the team.
• Mentor and uplevel engineers on the team, including code review, technical guidance, and career development.
• Partner closely with the Payroll Product Manager to translate roadmap priorities into scoped, sequenced engineering work.
• Use AI-assisted development tools as a standard part of daily engineering work, and drive adoption of these practices across the team.
• Evaluate and champion new AI-augmented engineering practices and tooling as Greenshades' AI-first development approach evolves.
• Partner with the Sustainability team to ensure smooth knowledge transfer of new Payroll features and to resolve production issues affecting payroll processing.
• Communicate technical tradeoffs, risks, and status clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

C#

Angular

SQL

Mentoring

Git

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Web API design

AI adoption

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

Job description

Greenshades is seeking a Development Lead to own delivery for the Payroll product line, guiding a team of engineers and partnering with Product Management to translate priorities into reliable software.

You will combine hands-on senior development with people leadership, mentoring engineers, and championing AI-assisted development practices as a core part of daily work, while aligning with a cross-functional, AI-first engineering strategy.