Senior Engineer

About OnPay

OnPay is a fast-growing software company headquartered in Atlanta offering a modern cloud-based payroll, HR, and benefits solution for small to midsize businesses. We’re currently seeking talented and curious individuals to join our team. We want to hear from you if you are interested in joining an exciting and fast-growing company!

Job Summary:

We are seeking a Fullstack Senior Engineer to join our Engineering team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus on helping to deliver features and enhancements for our core payroll offerings at OnPay. You will work with product leaders, engineering leaders, and Customer Support teams to inform product direction and decisions. We are looking for a self-starter willing to jump into existing processes and deliver at a high level for our customers. We are also looking for a Senior Engineer with hands-on experience with Linux, DevOps practices and a willingness to help shape the direction of our infrastructure.

Role Responsibilities:

• Work with Product and Engineering leadership to map out new features and enhancements to existing core payroll products.
• Work closely with Customer Experience to ensure we deliver the best solutions for our core business functionality.
• Work with Customer Experience to troubleshoot ongoing customer issues.
• Frequently collaborate with teammates on best practices, payroll operations, and business processes.
• Collaborate with peers to identify and resolve architectural and technical trade-offs.
• Document software systems and technical requirements to ensure peers can understand decisions made.
• Balance feature delivery with technology improvements.
• Help shape some of our DevOps and infrastructure processes.
• Foster an inclusive team environment.
• Seek and offer feedback on improvements.
• Strong desire to highlight others’ accomplishments.
• Follow standards to prevent security and performance issues.
• Writing unit tests to reduce manual QA and ensure we don’t introduce new or pre-existing bugs.
• Participate in on-call rotation and production support.

Traits and Skills We Seek:

• Our company's top priorities are humility, hard work, honesty, and transparency.
• Be customer-centric with everything you do. We put our customers first in everything we do.
• We aim to be great listeners and learners; there is always room for growth.
• Methodical approach to work. We are looking for someone who can dig into nitty-gritty details to ensure we follow payroll laws and regulations appropriately.

Education and Experience:

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Prior Payroll or HRIS experience is a plus
• PHP, Go, React, Docker, MySQL, Mongo, and Redis experience (preferred).
• JIRA, Confluence, GitHub, and Jenkins experience (preferred).
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure and DevOps processes.
• Ability to balance business needs, technical priorities, and customer needs.
• Familiarity with software testing best practices.
• Hands-On Experience with: AWS, GCP, MySQL, Mongo, and Linux

Perks:

• A casual team-oriented environment with a solid work/life balance and flexible work options.
• Competitive pay, including bonuses and stock options.
• Four weeks of paid time off plus paid holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Short-term/Long-term Disability, Life Insurance, Parental Leave.
• On-site training at our Ponce City Market HQ.
• Stocked kitchen with a variety of snacks and drinks.
• Ponce City Market employee discounts & more!

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OnPay is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. We want candidates from multiple backgrounds and lifestyles to create a broader set of perspectives. We make all employment decisions without regard to gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, religion, age, pregnancy, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other classification protected by applicable laws.