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.
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.
UKG is looking to hire a Sr. Principal Software Engineer to lead in designing and delivering next-generation and transformational architectural designs that yield superior functional, scalable, resilient, adaptable, performant, and secure offerings and component services at UKG. They will establish the starting point for transformational architectural decisions, patterns, and practices, with revolutionary architectural outcomes of performance, scale, security, and delivery that will shape how new software architecture patterns, technologies, and best practices are adopted and measured at UKG.
As a Sr. Principal Software Engineer at UKG, you will:

• Serve as subject matter expert for Software Engineering practice, with the ability to provide technical leadership in areas of Software Design, Development & Delivery, Reliability, Scalability, Performance, and Security across many Software domains such as Event-driven architecture, Platform Services, Data Engineering, and Public Cloud.

• Partner with Product Owners and Engineering Owners when making roadmap, design, architectural, and engineering-impacting decisions.

• Lead initiatives in the development of architectural significant proofs-of-concept solutions to assist product architects and development teams in accelerating the adoption of the technical strategy.

• Serve as technical strategic advisors to research work being executed in the Development organization. Qualifications:

• 12+ years of Software Development experience

• Experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems in a multi-tenant SaaS environment

• Experience with full-stack architectures and ability to guide architectural decisions on both UI and back-end services

• Strong understanding of security, reliability, scalability, high availability, and concurrency architectural patterns and solutions.

• Experience in Java, SQL, REST API frameworks, React JS development

• Experience in OOPS, Data Structures and Algorithms, multithreading, identity & security controls

• Experience in unit testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, PowerMock, etc

• Experience with the development of APIs and Web Services

• Experience in database modeling, relational and NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB

• Proficiency with Git as a version control system

• Good understanding of software security practices

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills and passion for cutting-edge technologies

• Experience with Jenkins, Splunk, Kibana, Grafana and APM tools such as Datadog.

• Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and public cloud deployment platforms such as GCP is a plus.

• Experience with analytical tools like Pendo is a plus

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.
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

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