Sr Principal Software Engineer

Company Overview

With 80,000 customers across 150 countries, UKG is the largest U.S.-based private software company in the world. And we’re only getting started. Ready to bring your bold ideas and collaborative mindset to an organization that still has so much more to build and achieve? Read on.

At UKG, you get more than just a job. You get to work with purpose. Our team of U Krewers are on a mission to inspire every organization to become a great place to work through our award-winning HR technology built for all.

Here, we know that you’re more than your work. That’s why our benefits help you thrive personally and professionally, from wellness programs and tuition reimbursement to U Choose — a customizable expense reimbursement program that can be used for more than 200+ needs that best suit you and your family, from student loan repayment, to childcare, to pet insurance. Our inclusive culture, active and engaged employee resource groups, and caring leaders value every voice and support you in doing the best work of your career. If you’re passionate about our purpose — people —then we can’t wait to support whatever gives you purpose. We’re united by purpose, inspired by 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
  
  

Where we’re going

UKG is on the cusp of something truly special. Worldwide, we already hold the #1 market share position for workforce management and the #2 position for human capital management. Tens of millions of frontline workers start and end their days with our software, with billions of shifts managed annually through UKG solutions today. Yet it’s our AI-powered product portfolio designed to support customers of all sizes, industries, and geographies that will propel us into an even brighter tomorrow!

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