Sr. Staff Software Engineer- Eng
UKG is hiring a Sr. Staff Software Engineer in Pune to lead architectural design and implementation within the WFM platform. The role focuses on setting engineering standards, driving architectural roadmaps, and providing technical leadership to engineering teams. Candidates need extensive Java experience, cloud infrastructure expertise, and a track record of delivering scalable, resilient enterprise solutions. The position requires a hands-on approach to design, observability, and modern CI/CD practices while influencing multi-year technical strategies.
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Experience
10+ years
Function
Engineering
Work mode
Onsite, India
Company
Tier 2
What you will work on
UKG is hiring a Sr. Staff Software Engineer in Pune to lead architectural design and implementation within the WFM platform. The role focuses on setting engineering standards, driving architectural roadmaps, and providing technical leadership to engineering teams. Candidates need extensive Java experience, cloud infrastructure expertise, and a track record of delivering scalable, resilient enterprise solutions. The position requires a hands-on approach to design, observability, and modern CI/CD practices while influencing multi-year technical strategies.
TAL's take
Solid engineering leadership role at a large-scale, well-established enterprise software company with clear architectural responsibilities.
The JD clearly defines the architectural leadership responsibilities, required stack, and team context within the WFM pillar.
Salaries at UKG
22.2 LPA average
Based on 38 Grapevine salary entries for UKG.
Engineering
0 - 2 years | L1
9 LPA average
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2 - 4 years | SDE 2
18 LPA average
Range: 15 - 22 LPA
Engineering
4 - 6 years | 2
16 LPA average
Range: 8 - 23 LPA
Engineering
6 - 8 years | P4
23 LPA average
Range: 23 - 24 LPA
Must haves
- 10 years of software development experience
- Proven experience as a lead software developer or similar role
- High proficiency in Java based development technologies for SaaS
- Experience leveraging observability tools such as Datadog and Grafana
- Experience with modern cloud technology (GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes)
- Strong exposure for highly reliable, scalable, secure, and decoupled solution
- Strong exposure of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process
Tools and skills
Nice to have: bigquery, snowflake, tableau, looker, kafka, rabbitmq, apache beam, spark, claude code, github co-pilot, artificial intelligence, machine learning.
About the company
Established enterprise software company with a strong global presence in the HCM and workforce management space.
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UKG offer - Need Feedback
Anyone working as principal software engineer at UKG, can you tell me what the role and responsibilities associated as I am confused when the hiring manager stated it is an individual contributor role.