Software Engineer III- Eng

UKG; Lowell (MA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will lead projects and deliver high-impact software used by enterprises worldwide.

Responsibilities include design, development, testing, deployment, and mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative environment. You will work on UI/UX principles, API development, database management, and security practices, while shaping scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Deep expertise in Java, React and SQL
• Extensive experience with software development practices and design patterns.
• Proficiency with version control systems like GitHub and bug/work tracking systems like JIRA.
• Understanding of cloud technologies and DevOps principles.

Responsibilities

• Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code for various software applications and systems.
• Technical Leadership: Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of complex software applications and systems, ensuring high quality and performance.
• Project Management: Manage execution and delivery of features and projects, negotiate priorities and deadlines, ensuring timely completion.
• Architectural Design: Participate in design reviews and architect new features with scalability, reliability, and maintainability in mind.
• Code Review: Review others’ code, provide feedback, maintain high standards, and ensure observability and tests.
• Testing: Build testable software, define tests, automate tests using tools and design patterns.
• Service Health and Quality: Maintain health and quality of services, perform root cause analysis, and implement improvements.
• Dev Ops Model: Work in a DevOps model, own from requirements to production deployment and maintenance.
• Documentation: Document features, enhancements, or fixes for training materials.

Skills

Java

React

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub

JIRA

Job description

Why UKG

At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That's what we do.

Why UKG

At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That's what we do. We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you'll get flexibility that's real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters—and so do you. We are looking for a Sr Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. This role provides an opportunity to lead projects and contribute to high-impact software solutions that are used by enterprises and users worldwide. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of complex software systems, as well as mentoring junior engineers. You will work in a collaborative environment, contributing to the technical foundation behind our flagship products and services. We are seeking engineers with diverse specialties and skills to join our dynamic team to innovate and solve complex challenges.

Our team is looking for strong talent with expertise in the following areas: UI/UX design principles, responsive design, JavaScript frameworks, API Development, Database Management, Security Practices, Message Queuing).

Responsibilities

• Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code or various software applications and systems.
• Technical Leadership: Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of complex software applications and systems, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance.
• Project Management: Manage execution and delivery of features and projects, negotiating project priorities and deadlines, ensuring successful and timely completion, with quality.
• Architectural Design: Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders and in the architectural design of new features and systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Code Review: Diligent about reviewing code developed by other developers, provide feedback and maintain a high bar of technical excellence to ensure code is adhering to industry standard best practices like coding guidelines, elegant, efficient and maintainable code, with observability built from ground up, unit tests etc.
• Testing: Build testable software, define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using tools (e.g., Junit, Selenium) and Design Patterns leveraging the test automation pyramid as the guide.
• Service Health and Quality: Maintain the health and quality of services and incidents, proactively identifying and resolving issues. Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for action providing recommendations to optimize performance. Conduct thorough root cause analysis and drive the implementation of measures to prevent future recurrences.
• Dev Ops Model: Understanding of working in a DevOps Model. Taking ownership from working with product management on requirements to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain the software in production.
• Documentation: Properly document new features, enhancements or fixes to the product, contributing to training materials.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Deep expertise in Java, React and SQL
• Extensive experience with software development practices and design patterns.
• Proficiency with version control systems like GitHub and bug/work tracking systems like JIRA.
• Understanding of cloud technologies and DevOps principles.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
• Experience with test automation frameworks and tools.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
• Familiarity with developing accessible technologies.
• Dedicated to diversity and inclusion initiatives.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

Company Overview

UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry - because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

UKG is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, disability, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.

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The pay range for this position is $102,300 to $147,050. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation. Learn more about UKG’s benefits and rewards at https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits