Software Engineer III- Eng

Job Overview

We are looking for a Software Engineer III (Eng) within UKG’s Payroll engineering organization. This mid‑level role focuses on designing, building, and supporting payroll services that operate at scale and meet strict standards for correctness, reliability, and compliance.

• Own the design and implementation of well‑defined payroll features or service components from development through production.
• Break down moderately complex requirements into clear technical tasks and implement them with minimal oversight.
• Ensure features meet functional, performance, and reliability requirements.
• Participate actively in design reviews, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

• Implement payroll calculations, data transformations, and processing workflows with a strong focus on correctness and auditability.
• Understand and apply payroll domain concepts such as earnings, deductions, taxes, retroactive changes, and off‑cycle runs.
• Handle regulatory‑driven changes with guidance, ensuring solutions are robust and traceable.
• Investigate and resolve payroll defects or production issues, including root‑cause analysis and preventative fixes.

• Contribute to the design of backend services, APIs, and data models within established architectural patterns.
• Make sound technical decisions within your area of ownership, escalating risks or ambiguities when appropriate.
• Identify code and design improvements that reduce complexity, improve reliability, or enhance performance.
• Balance short‑term delivery with long‑term maintainability.

• Write high‑quality, well‑tested code and hold yourself and others to strong engineering standards.
• Perform thorough code reviews, providing constructive and actionable feedback.
• Apply best practices for logging, monitoring, error handling, and resiliency.
• Contribute to refactoring and incremental modernization of existing payroll systems.

• Collaborate effectively with product, QA, and platform teams to deliver end‑to‑end solutions.
• Share knowledge through documentation, code reviews, and technical discussions.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing, code feedback, and informal coaching.
• Communicate clearly about technical trade‑offs, risks, and delivery timelines.

• 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience building backend services in .NET Core or similar modern frameworks.
• Solid understanding of relational databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL) and data modeling.
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts such as concurrency, idempotency, and fault tolerance.
• Ability to independently deliver features while collaborating within a team environment.

• Experience working in payroll, HCM, financial services, or other regulated domains.
• Exposure to event‑driven or batch processing architectures.
• Experience supporting production systems, including on‑call or incident response.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud‑native deployment practices.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems or contributing to significant refactors.
• Basic familiarity with front‑end integration patterns (e.g., Angular or similar).

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.

UKG participates in E‑Verify. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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