Software Engineer III at Paychex in Webster, NY

Job description

Paychex is reimagining how businesses manage their workforce by bringing payroll, HR, benefits, and advisory services together into a single connected HCM platform. As Paychex and Paycor come together, we're combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, AI, and human expertise to help organizations work smarter, support their people, and achieve better business outcomes. This is an exciting time to join our team as we continue to invest in innovation, simplify client experiences, and shape the future of work. At Paychex, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, make a meaningful impact, and be part of something bigger as One Paychex. Overview Validates requirements, performs analysis and design for system improvements and new applications. Represents the department by leading work and providing guidance to others. The Unified Service Development (USD) team builds and supports the applications and reporting data that power client service and operations across the business. The team maintains web applications and services, along with a large portfolio of SQL Server databases, ETL pipelines, and reporting data feeds, and is actively modernizing these systems onto containerized platforms such as OpenShift. The team also builds internal AI-enabled developer tooling and uses AI-assisted development in day-to-day work. Responsibilities Develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software to meet requirements 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 Build and support web applications and services in .NET and related technologies Deploy and support containerized applications on OpenShift, including monitoring and troubleshooting across environments Design, build, and maintain ETL processes and scheduled data loads that deliver reporting data to downstream consumers Develop and optimize SQL Server databases, queries, stored procedures, and SQL Agent jobs that support applications and reporting Help modernize legacy ETL workloads (e.g., SSIS) into containerized solutions on OpenShift, including shared libraries, orchestration, validation, and monitoring Manage work in Jira, source code in Bitbucket (branching, pull requests, code review), and technical documentation in Confluence, including designs and operational/support procedures Use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to improve productivity, quality, and test coverage, while critically reviewing and validating AI-generated code Qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer related discipline or equivalent work experience 3 years of experience in related field Desired Skills and Technical Experience Application development .NET Framework / .NET React Node.js Unit testing and test automation Data and ETL SQL Server, Azure and relational databases (T-SQL, stored procedures, querying from an application) ETL development and reporting data (SSIS a plus; Python-based ETL a plus; Data Bricks a plus) Data validation, error handling, and monitoring of scheduled data loads Platform and delivery OpenShift and containerization CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) Jira, Bitbucket, and Conf