Software Development Engineer

About the role

HOW TO APPLY: Apply through the official UKG careers page. UKG is hiring Software Development Engineers for its Shared Services team within Employee Solutions & Experience. The role focuses on modern… Subscribe to Premium to view the full description and apply.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated tests, framework components, libraries, and engineering utilities.
• Build automation for browser, API, integration, contract, accessibility, and end-to-end testing.
• Write clean, reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Follow established standards for automation design, code quality, testability, and reliability.
• Integrate automated tests and quality checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Investigate test failures, flaky automation, environmental issues, and product defects.
• Improve test execution, diagnostics, stability, and feedback time.
• Add logging, metrics, reports, and diagnostic information to automation solutions.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, product, and quality-engineering teams.
• Use AI coding assistants to support coding, automation development, debugging, documentation, and analysis.
• Contribute to shared platforms and reusable engineering components.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, technical learning, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in software development, quality engineering, test automation, DevOps, or a related technical role.
• Programming experience in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, or a comparable language.
• Understanding of software development fundamentals, object-oriented or modular design, data structures, debugging, and automated testing.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, or a similar browser automation technology.
• Experience with API testing and automated validation.
• Familiarity with integration, regression, and end-to-end testing concepts.
• Working knowledge of Git, pull requests, code reviews, build systems, and development workflows.
• Exposure to Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or another CI/CD platform.
• Basic knowledge of Docker, cloud services, or modern web application architectures.
• Understanding of logging, test reporting, and failure diagnostics.
• Experience using Claude Code, Codex, or a comparable AI coding assistant.
• Familiarity with AI tool calling, MCP, or agentic-development concepts, or the ability to learn them.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and learning skills.

Required Skills