Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Paychex provides payroll, HR, benefits, and advisory services through a connected human capital management platform. The Software Engineer III will primarily support the billing system while developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and enhancing software, handling production incidents, and contributing to system improvements. The role also provides technical leadership, troubleshooting, mentoring, and expertise in application development and related technologies.
Responsibilities
- Support the billing system, including production incidents, application change requests, and overnight support
- Develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software to meet requirements
- Design and develop test automation code
- Complete complex program changes in a self-directed manner
- Perform comprehensive analysis and design for broadly defined requirements
- Make significant technical contributions and contribute to technical direction
- Provide estimates for user stories based on business requirements, specifications, and designs
- Comply with and contribute to SDLC standards and CI/CD procedures to ensure consistency; identify and introduce opportunities for improvement
- Monitor progress against task estimates and provide status updates
- Provide technical support and troubleshooting for applications across environments, including high-impact production issues
- Maintain existing code base and monitor for failures in non-production environments
- Support changes during quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and post-implementation to ensure application integrity
- Share technical expertise; guide and mentor others to maximize team effectiveness and quality
- Serve as a subject matter expert in a relevant technology or business application
- Leverage AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code to support agentic development and improve productivity
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a computer-related discipline or equivalent work experience
- 5 years of experience in a related field
- Demonstrated project leadership experience
- Experience using one or more programming language(s)
- Troubleshooting and problem solving
- Production support
- Leadership
- Communication
- Agile methodology
- Java programming language
- Application Programming Interface (API) / RESTful microservices
- Relational database experience, such as Oracle
- NoSQL database experience, such as MongoDB
- Enterprise data pipelines, such as Kafka
- Familiarity with AI development tools for agentic development
Benefits
- For full-time employees: medical coverage
- For full-time employees: virtual wellness classes
- For full-time employees: tuition reimbursement
- For full-time employees: 401(k) with employer match
- For full-time employees: adoption assistance
- For full-time employees: financial assistance
- For full-time employees: paid time off
- For full-time employees: company holidays
- For full-time employees: culture days
- For full-time employees: comprehensive work-life balance programs
- For full-time employees: award-winning training and development programs
- For full-time employees: ongoing learning opportunities
- For full-time employees: paid time off for volunteerism
- For full-time employees: company-wide and local community initiatives
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