Description

Delivering one-of-a-kind cloud technology, accompanied by award winning customer service, Paylocity is a software development company in a category of its own. We are a publicly traded company that offers an Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) which enables employees to share in the long-term growth and future success of the company.

Poised to revolutionize the world of human capital management for hundreds of thousands of small and medium sized businesses, we are seeking the best and the brightest to help us create the future of our talent solutions – enabling our customers to better develop their employees and supervisors.

Our lean development process enables our small product oriented teams to innovate, collaborate and bring amazing features to market.

Our talent anywhere philosophy nurtures a diverse and dynamic group of colleagues with a shared mission to make great products and have fun doing it.

The Performance Engineer specializing in web application performance will have a significant impact on product development. This individual will help ensure that our HCM platform is performant and scalable, and provide tools and guidance for developers to do so on their own features.

Are you the teammate we are looking for?

How we work:

• Small, self-sufficient product-oriented teams with an entrepreneurial spirit organized into categories.

• Dedicated IT Operations experts committed to cutting-edge infrastructure and developer tools.

• We don’t add more folks to our teams, we add additional teams to scale.

• Casual, collaborative, agile environment which embraces and operates under our shared principles.

• Complete transparency with open, honest discussions about our progress.

• Close working relationship between executive stakeholders and product teams.

What we offer:

• Lean enabling process that focuses on putting our product teams in the best position to succeed.

• A commitment to investing in our products, hiring the best talent, and giving them.

• The chance to meaningfully contribute to a vast market opportunity.

• Annual training allowance plus a subscription to Pluralsight for all technology colleagues.

Requirements

Desired Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated understanding of the HTTP protocol, web applications with ability to pinpoint performance risks by interpreting output (e.g., network latency graphs, stack trace profiles)

• Previous experience(ideally 5+ yrs) implementing and maintaining performance testing suites using tools (e.g. Microsoft Load and Performance Testing Framework) and providing analysis of the results

• Experience with real-time site evaluation tools (e.g. AppDynamics)

• Must understand DB bottlenecks and caching infrastructures

• Experience working in a fast-paced Agile/Scrum development shop

• Commitment to documentation best practices so your code can be consumed in an open source environment

Preferred

• Real-world experience developing in C#

• Experience with continuous integration systems (e.g., Jenkins, TravisCI) and automated provisioning tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)

• Full stack performance engineering capabilities, ranging from instrumenting front-end (e.g. JavaScript) to back-end

• Contributor to or consumer of Open Source Frameworks

• Understanding of content delivery on a global scale, its challenges and how to solve them

During the last three months, you would have:

• Designed, implemented, executed, and analyzed performance, load, and stress tests for services, applications, and infrastructure

• Incorporated performance evaluation into our continuous integration process, including both backend and front-end metrics

• Established best practices for performance testing across the organization

• Worked with teams to understand performance liabilities, and contribute advice and/or code for implementing improvements

• Shared performance metrics to be consumed across the organization, including any necessary reporting infrastructure

• Worked with development to triage and troubleshoot performance issues in production

Paylocity’s Awards:

• Glassdoor's Best Places to Work in 2014/2017/2018

• 7-time Winner on Chicago Area's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For

• Inc Magazine listed Paylocity as an Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Privately Held Firm from 2007-2013

• Built in Chicago Top 100 Digital Companies for 2017

• Glassdoor's 25 Highest-Rated Public Cloud Companies to Work For

• Crain’s Fast Fifty — Chicago’s Fastest-Growing Companies