Software Engineer III- Eng

Overview

Join UKG’s performance engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer. Lead projects and contribute to high-impact software solutions by designing performance strategies, optimizing complex systems, ensuring reliability and maintainability, and mentoring junior engineers.

What you'll do

• Identify performance requirements and risks early in the development lifecycle.
• Execute load and stress tests, interpret results, analyze performance bottlenecks, and improve response times, throughput, and resource utilization.
• Build and use monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting to understand service behavior.
• Define and review service health indicators and use telemetry to detect performance regressions and improve production diagnosis.
• Manage performance execution and delivery of features and projects, negotiating priorities and deadlines and ensuring timely, high-quality completion.
• Analyze application and system behavior to find inefficient code paths or resource usage.
• Recommend and implement optimizations and validate their impact through measurement and testing.
• Investigate complex performance issues using profiling and diagnostic tools, including heap and thread dump analysis.
• Identify root causes and drive fixes and preventive measures.
• Participate in or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders and contribute to the architectural design of new features and systems.
• Consider scalability, reliability, maintainability, observability, and performance throughout the design process.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior engineers.
• Review code, provide constructive feedback, and maintain a high bar for technical excellence, maintainability, observability, and unit testing.
• Promote coding guidelines and elegant and efficient implementations.
• Develop and maintain performance test scripts and automation using tools such as LoadRunner, NeoLoad, JMeter, and JavaScript-based frameworks.
• Diagnose and resolve technical issues to ensure high-quality service operations.
• Maintain service health and quality, proactively identify and resolve issues, and recommend improvements to reliability and performance.
• Lead thorough root cause analyses and implement measures to prevent recurrence.
• Document new features, enhancements, fixes, and relevant performance findings.
• Contribute to technical documentation and training materials.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends and advocate for adoption where appropriate, such as Copilot.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience either in software development or performance engineering, preferably in a product-based or SaaS organization.
• Deep expertise in one or more programming languages such as C, C++, C#, .NET, Python, Java, or JavaScript.
• Hands-On experience with software development practices and in workload modeling, performance test planning, scripting, test execution, monitoring, and results analysis.
• Proficiency with performance testing and APM tools such as LoadRunner, NeoLoad, JMeter, k6, Grafana, and Dynatrace.
• Experience using APM and diagnostic tools such as Grafana, Datadog, dynatrace, Fiddler, browser developer tools, and platform monitoring solutions to identify bottlenecks and performance risks.
• Proven track record of delivering complex software projects on time and within budget.
• Proficiency with version control systems like GitHub and bug/work tracking systems like JIRA.
• Understanding of cloud technologies and DevOps principles.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Familiarity with GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide junior engineers.
• Commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
• Familiarity with developing accessible technologies.
• Dedicated to diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Details

• Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
• Must be able to overlap with US business hours as required by the team.