Staff Engineer Software - Core Platforms, Calendar Team

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Location: Remote (Must be based anywhere in the Czech Republic)

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.

Help Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology!

Want to develop the strategies and principles needed to deliver compelling software? Join our team and help us enhance our all-in-one software platform, elevate our one-of-a-kind technology, and improve the employee experience.

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Position Overview

The Staff Software Engineer drives technical excellence and innovation across our organization.

This role combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership, focusing on architecting

scalable solutions while fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration.

About the Calendar Platform Team:

Modern HR and payroll systems are full of date-driven events: time off, shift schedules, payroll deadlines, holidays, compliance tasks, and more. But too often, these critical timelines are scattered across disconnected tools, creating confusion for employees and friction for businesses.

At Paylocity, the Calendar Team is building the foundational time layer that brings it all together.

We own the central Calendar infrastructure that powers experiences across our entire product ecosystem. Our platform will be used by dozens of internal teams and millions of end-users.

What we are building:

Our mission is to make time-based data consistent, contextual, and actionable across the platform. We’re not just building UI components—we’re building a flexible Calendar-as-a-Platform, with reusable front end components and robust APIs that other teams can easily plug into.

Recent and upcoming initiatives include:

• Unified Calendar Experience across the enterprise HR suite
• Deep integrations with Time Off, Punch Clocks, and Scheduling
• Visibility into Payroll, Benefit, and Pay Cycle timelines
• Developer-focused APIs for fast integrations

Why join us?

• You'll shape both core platform architecture and user-facing calendar products
• You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with product teams, designers, and platform architects
• You’ll help define how other teams and millions of users interact with time

This is a rare opportunity to build and scale a platform product with true horizontal reach, while solving hard problems around performance, extensibility, and product experience.

Primary Responsibilities

The below represents the primary duties of the position, others may be assigned as needed. To

perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty

satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or

ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities

to perform the essential functions.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and implement modular, well-architected systems that scale efficiently
• Drive technical strategy and best practices across teams and departments
• Architect solutions that consider both immediate needs and long-term implications
• Identify and champion high-impact technical initiatives that drive business value
• Own and deliver large-scale project features with high reliability and performance
• Delegate effectively to accelerate project timelines and develop team capabilities
• Prioritize and manage multiple high-impact projects simultaneously
• Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks and issues
• Set and maintain high standards for code quality, performance, and observability
• Lead code reviews and technical design discussions with constructive feedback
• Identify and resolve quality issues in team members' code
• Advocate for automation and process improvements

Growth & Development

• Mentor and coach team members at all experience levels
• Drive continuous team improvement through knowledge sharing and best practices
• Build strong relationships with engineers across teams and departments
• Foster an inclusive culture that encourages open discussion and collaboration
• Gain alignment on technical strategy across teams and departments
• Drive technical decisions that balance immediate needs with long-term goals
• Build consensus through clear technical communication
• Resolve conflicts constructively while maintaining positive team dynamics

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• Minimum 8 years of software engineering experience
• Proven track record of leading significant technical initiatives

Technical Experience:

• 8+ years hands-on experience with application development
• ReactJS for front-end (or experience with a comparable framework, and at least knowledge of ReactJS)
• Strong knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS and ReactJS
• .NET C# for back-end
• Experience developing highly interactive and responsive applications
• Solid understanding of modern API standards and concepts
• Experience with MongoDB, SQL, or other databases
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and test automation
• Ability to work effectively in an agile, cross-functional team
• Commitment to the role and ability to take responsibility for assigned tasks
• Passion for writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code
• Strong software architecture design skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Strong sense of curiosity
• Adaptability to new technologies

Nice to Have experience:

• Familiarity with cloud services (AWS preferred)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, etc.)
• Experience developing mobile components using React

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.

We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and a pension match, as well as perks that support you, your family, and your finances. And if it’s career development you desire, we provide that, too! At Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.

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