Job description Company and perks - Job ID - STAFF019198 - Employment Type - Regular - Work Style - hybrid - Location - Noida,UP,India - Role - Staff Software Engineer - Eng 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 Role- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across multiple teams, define architectural direction, and drive the delivery of large-scale platform capabilities. You will champion engineering excellence, AI-first development practices, and operational maturity while partnering with engineering leaders, product management, and architects to shape the future of UKG's Workforce Management platform. - We are looking for an engineer who combines deep technical expertise with strategic thinking, influences engineering decisions across organizations, and mentors senior engineers while driving innovation throughout the software development lifecycle. - Responsibilities - Technical Leadership & Architecture - Define and drive the architectural vision for Workforce Management platforms, ensuring scalability, resiliency, performance, and maintainability. - Lead the design of large-scale distributed systems supporting timekeeping, scheduling, workforce planning, and labor optimization.



- Drive architecture reviews and establish engineering standards across multiple teams. - Evaluate emerging technologies and influence long-term technology strategy. - Partner with Product, Architecture, and Engineering leadership to align technical investments with business priorities. - Software Engineering- Drive modernization initiatives that improve platform scalability, reliability, developer productivity, and customer experience. - Lead engineering efforts for complex cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple teams. - Establish engineering best practices around performance, testing, observability, and maintainability. - AI-First Engineering - Champion AI-assisted engineering practices across the organization. - Drive adoption of AI tools for software design, implementation, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and operational excellence. - Define best practices for responsible AI usage throughout the SDLC. - Identify opportunities to leverage AI to improve engineering productivity and software quality at scale. - Reliability & Operational Excellence - Drive platform-wide improvements in observability, monitoring, telemetry, and incident response. - Lead post-incident reviews and long-term reliability initiatives across multiple services. - Partner with SRE teams to establish reliability objectives, operational metrics, and service health standards.



- Improve platform resiliency through automation and proactive engineering practices. - Security & Data Protection - Drive secure software design across Workforce Management services. - Ensure secure handling of employee, scheduling, attendance, and workforce data. - Champion security-by-design, privacy, governance, and compliance best practices across engineering teams. - Technical Leadership & Mentorship - Mentor senior engineers and technical leads across multiple teams. - Influence engineering culture through architecture reviews, design guidance, and technical coaching. - Raise engineering standards through technical governance, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement. - Build consensus across organizations on complex technical decisions. - Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field. - 10+ years of professional software engineering experience. - Extensive experience developing large-scale distributed systems using Java and/or Python. - Proven expertise designing cloud-native microservices and enterprise SaaS platforms. - Strong experience with SQL, distributed data systems, and scalable data models. - Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP. - Strong understanding of distributed caching, messaging, and event-driven architectures. - Experience with observability platforms such as Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Kibana, or similar. - Demonstrated success leading architecture and technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams. - Proven ability to influence technical direction beyond immediate team boundaries.- Demonstrated AI-first engineering mindset with hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools. - Exceptional communication, collaboration, mentoring, and te

📌 Staff Software Engineer- Eng (Noida)
🏢 UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group)
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