**Location**:_Remote (Must be based anywhere near Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey)_**
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**Description**
At Paylocity, Software Engineering Managers are technology focused leaders that act as the bridge between an engineering team’s outcomes and the business strategies driving those outcomes. It is a critical role in our Product and Technology organization. This key role serves as manager of a team of roughly 10 engineers and is responsible for driving workstream focused outcomes in our employee platforms domain, while working to achieve a high level of performance and efficiency. This position requires commitment to exceptional results, a strong desire for continuous improvement and the ability to build a collaborative culture within the team.
**Who you are**:
- Highly collaborative Engineering leader who will lead a team of software and test engineers in a remote first environment




- A supportive mentor and coach for your team members of various levels of experience
- Able to collaborate on project planning, leveraging your team to optimize for high quality at the velocity needed by the business
- At ease working at all levels of the organization
- An advocate for quality and continuous improvement of automated testing
- Strongly talented in both written and verbal technical communication
- Steadfast in your desire for production stability, observability, and alerting, ensuring a top-notch customer experience
- A proponent of data-driven decision making
- Experienced in leveraging cloud technologies to deliver product and platform solutions
- Willingness to share your ideas in a collaborative environment with an open mind to receive constructive feedback and unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team members
- Adaptable to change and pivot based on situational challenges
- Able to deal with ambiguity and guide your team through nebulous situations
**What will you do**:
- Manage one of the teams focused on delivering customer facing value within our Employee Platforms domain.
- Work with your team and leaders to develop good engineering practices, creating a culture of engineering excellence and high quality software delivery
- Thrive in an agile environment with 2 week sprint cycles, be an agile coach and continuously managing your teams’ backlog




- Own the overall health and engineering quality of your product and demonstrate your ability to help scale and improve upon these systems
- Break down the complexity of projects, services, and processes while communicating with other engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders
- Speak confidently about project timelines, system architectures, engineering practices, quality and more
- Raise risks immediately while proposing potential directional solutions to mitigate
- Help guide your team in the creation of properly leveled estimates in order to set realistic delivery expectations with stakeholders and leadership
- Implement routines and frameworks for efficient communication and decision making
- Keep your team informed of broader initiatives throughout the organization and help them integrate when needed
- Negotiate delivery tradeoffs with your Product partner to ensure tech debt and maintenance work is managed appropriately
- Help mentor and grow each one of your engineers to help them achieve the next level of their careers
- Work with Talent Acquisition partners in the hiring process to build a high functioning team
- Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team
- Hold regular 1:1s with your direct reports to ensure the overall health of your organization is understood
- Give regular and clear feedback around individual's performance
- Foster technical decision making on the team, and make final decisions when necessary
- Lead the team during operational major incidents
- Perform root cause analysis
- Identify improvement areas to avoid repeat incidents
- Creating and delivering incident post-mortems where applicable
- Create opportunities for individuals for growth, recognize team members publicly for achievements, and reward team member

📌 Engineering Manager (Recognition & Rewards) (Guadalajara)
🏢 Paylocity
📍 Guadalajara