Senior Java Software Engineer

About the Company

Paychex is committed to providing innovative solutions that help businesses manage their payroll, HR, and benefits. Our mission is to empower businesses with the tools they need to succeed, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

About the Role

The role involves developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving software to meet requirements while ensuring high-quality standards and technical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software to meet requirements
• Design and develop test automation code
• Complete complex program changes; self-directed
• Perform comprehensive analysis and design for broadly defined requirements
• Make significant technical contributions; contribute to technical direction
• Provide estimates required for user stories based on business requirements, specifications and designs
• Comply with and contribute to SDLC standards and CD/CI procedures to ensure consistency; introduce new standards and opportunities for improvements
• Monitor progress against task estimates to provide status
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for applications across environments, including high impact production issues
• Maintain existing code base, monitoring for failures in non-prod environments
• Support changes during quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and post implementation to ensure integrity of application
• Share technical expertise; guide and mentor others to maximize team effectiveness and quality
• Subject Matter Expert in a relevant technology or Paychex application

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer related discipline or equivalent work experience

Required Skills

• 6+ years of experience in software development
• Expertise in Java, OOPS, Spring Boot, Microservices, SQL/NoSQL, REST services
• Must have hands-on experience in Docker, Jenkins, Open Shift, Groovy
• Thorough understanding of Message brokers like Kafka and RabbitMQ
• Good to have exposure to UI technologies like Angular/React
• CI/CD principles, including automated builds, tests, and deployments and exposure to build tools like maven & Gradle
• Experience in Agile / Scrum is a must
• Open to learn and implement new technologies