Senior Manager Engineering

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Location: (Must be based in Guadalajara)

Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.

While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.

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We are committed to building a world-class team by hiring top talent globally. Our ideal candidates would be based in Guadalajara or the surrounding areas, with the right to work there, and be able to work within four hours of Eastern Standard Time.

About The Role

This is a critical role in leading and scaling multiple high-performing engineering teams in the File Import/Export domain to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality SaaS solutions. This role requires a hands-on technical leader with strong project execution skills, a focus on engineering best practices, and the ability to align technical initiatives with business objectives. The Senior Engineering Manager will be responsible for driving team performance, improving development processes, and ensuring successful product delivery while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Security, and Go-To-Market teams. This role requires a balance of technical expertise, leadership, and business acumen.

Who You Are

• Highly effective Senior Engineering Manager who has led multiple teams
• A supportive mentor and coach for engineering managers and teams of various levels of experience
• Curious to learn the inner workings of your team's domain and users that depend on it
• Strong understanding of software system architectures and distributed systems at scale
• Able to leverage your technical experience to guide your team developing complex solutions and independently initiate, plan, and execute towards goals
• An advocate for quality, automation, and continuous improvement through data driven decisions
• Steadfast in your desire for production stability, ensuring a top-notch customer experience
• Driven to stay current by learning and applying new technologies and tools
• Willing to share your ideas and unafraid to seek out feedback from others
• Able to break down the boundaries of ambiguity and push your teams to deliver the right updates for the customer
  
  

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional peers to support and influence strategy and development efforts aligned with business direction
• Own engineering quality, scalability, and overall health across multiple related systems and products in the File Import/Export domain
• Guide teams through complex systems and dependencies, providing direction and removing roadblocks
• Help your team leverage and implement AI capabilities both in development processes and product feature sets.
• Facilitate and drive technical design by breaking down complexity, setting clear timelines, and guiding realistic effort estimation
• Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders, including system architecture, project status, and risks
• Prioritize efforts with peers and stakeholders to balance delivery, tech debt, and maintenance
• Raise risks proactively and propose mitigation strategies
• Keep teams informed and integrated with broader organizational initiatives
• Hire and develop a high-performing, globally-distributed teams while fostering a positive culture
• Lead operational excellence efforts including incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
• Recognize and reward performance, and create opportunities for growth and development
• Hold self and teams accountable for delivering secure, scalable, and high-quality software
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with Product counterparts
  
  

Experience

• BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with 3+ years in a leadership or management role driving success across multiple teams.
• Experience leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams in a SaaS or enterprise software environment
• Experience developing and running software using cloud technologies (preferably AWS)
• A demonstrable level of successful strategy development along with proven outcomes
• Collaborative project planning capabilities that factor in risk/reward tradeoffs, assumptions and confidence levels
• Good understanding of various architectural patterns and the related advantages and trade-offs
• Experience leveraging observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog
• Versed in the design and development of API based platforms
• Able to work effectively in a team environment in an Agile fashion
• Familiarity with the challenges and techniques for successfully integrating AI into product features. Preferably with hands-on experience
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Ability to sit for extended periods: The role requires sitting at a desk or workstation for long periods, typically 7-8 hours a day
• Use of computer and phone systems: The employee must be able to operate a computer, use phone systems, and type. This includes using multiple software programs and inquiries simultaneously
  
  

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected]. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed.

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