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 Team:
Who we are--Our team is a component of a reliable, high-quality data platform that empowers customers with trusted, timely workforce insights. Our mission is to build scalable, observable, and resilient data pipelines that uphold the highest standards of engineering excellence. Through automation, transparency, and continuous improvement, we ensure data flows with integrity and precision, enabling customers to make confident, data-driven decisions about their people and their business.

• 7+ years of experience handling database development, BI development, ETL development, and API data integrations including the technical architectures and infrastructure components as well as the reporting and analytical tools.
• 7+ years of experience in programming language on the JVM- Java, Scala, Kotlin
• 5+ years of experience in developing and maintaining data extraction pipelines in both streaming and batch methodologies, leveraging tools such as Cloud Composer, Cloud Dataflow, Airflow, Apache Beam, Cloud Functions, Cloud Pub Sub, Kafka among others
• 5+ years of managing automated deployments automation using technologies such as Terraform, GCloud CLI, Docker, Bash, Humanitec, Jenkins, Github Actions among others
• 5+ years of test automation, data quality and observability for the pipelines using technologies such as TestNG, Junit, PyTest, Terratest, TestRail, among others, ensuring that there is not only test code coverage, but regression tests and edge test case handling
• 5+ years of experience in data analysis, data transformation and data anomaly handling
• 3+ years of experience in working with SQL and NoSQL databases such as but not limited to BigQuery, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MongoDB
• 3+ years of experience with Cloud Infrastructure such as GCP, Azure, AWS
• Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Understanding of source control technologies such as GIT, SVN etc

• Strong written and verbal, communication, and organizational skills
• High degree of self-motivation to learn new methodologies that will enhance job performance
• Ability to successfully work within a team and manage a dynamic environment with rapidly changing priorities
• Setting up and monitoring data loads in test and production environments, handling production support, performance tuning and optimization.
• Leading and participating in technical discussions, peer reviewing code, helping junior developers, and contributing to technical documentation and knowledge bases
• Able to communicate both technically and with business stakeholders
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience, in addition to the outlined qualifications