[Remote] Software Engineer III
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, handle production incidents and application changes, and provide overnight support. The role also involves designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software while contributing technical direction and mentoring others.
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
- Medical coverage
- Virtual wellness classes
- Tuition reimbursement
- 401(k) + employer match
- Adoption assistance
- Financial assistance
- Paid time off
- Company holidays
- Culture days
- Comprehensive work-life balance programs
- Award-winning training and development programs with ongoing learning opportunities
- Paid time off for volunteerism
- Company-wide and local initiatives that benefit organizations employees care about
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