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.
**About the Team**
You’ll be part of a collaborative engineering team focused on building reliable, scalable software and data solutions that support UKG’s workforce operating platform. We partner closely with product, design, quality, cloud, data, and customer-facing teams to deliver software that helps organizations manage and support their people. Our team values clear communication, thoughtful software development, shared ownership, and continuous improvement.
**About the Role**
We are looking for a Software Engineer III- Eng 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 Software Engineer III- Eng, 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.
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 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 while ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Code Review: Diligently review code by other developers, provide feedback, and maintain a high bar of technical excellence to ensure code is adhering to industry standard best practices. Examples include but are not limited to: following coding guidelines, supporting efficient and maintainable code, ensuring observability is built from the ground up, and effective unit and integration tests.
Testing: Build testable software, define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using tools (e.g., Nunit, 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.
DevOps Model: Understanding of working in a DevOps model. Take 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, and sharing knowledge with the team.
Collaboration: Coordinate with other team members, product, and external team members to align and ensure the integrity and quality of the final solution
About you,
Minimum Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
* 4+ years of professional software development experience.
* Experience designing and developing software applications using Java, Python, object-oriented programming, or modern web application development practices.
* Experience building or supporting cloud-based, distributed, or enterprise software solutions, including experience with Google Cloud.
* Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and analytical databases or data warehouse platforms such as BigQuery.
* Experience designing, developing, or supporting extract, transform, and load processes, data pipelines, or data integration solutions.
* Experience working with software development tools, source control, automated testing, and continuous integration or continuous delivery practices.
**Additional Preferred Qualification (AI-Focused) **
Utilize AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to improve productivity while adhering to engineering best practices
Exposure to AI/ML concepts, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), or AI-powered development tools
**Preferred Qualifications**
* Experience with generative artificial intelligence assisted development tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools.
* Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, Spring, RESTful services, or similar technologies.
* Experience with microservices, application performance, security, observability, or automated deployment.
* Experience working in an agile software development environment.
* Ability to break down complex problems, communicate clearly with team members, and deliver high-quality software in partnership with others.
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.
UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.
Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process
For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com
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.
