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UKG builds workforce management and HR technology used by organizations across every major industry, and its engineering teams span backend systems, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and product development. UKG has an active sponsorship track record for engineering roles and works with candidates across H-1B, OPT, and other work authorization pathways.
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Company and benefits
Job ID: MGRSO017684
Employment Type: Regular
Work Style: hybrid
Location: Sunrise, FL, United States
Travel: Up to 25%
Role
Mgr. Software Engineering - SRE
Why UKG:
At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That’s what we do.
We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you’ll get flexibility that’s real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters—and so do you.
About the role:
We are seeking a seasoned Software Engineering Manager to join our dynamic team. As a first-line manager, you will lead a team of talented engineers, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of ownership, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-impact projects. You will be responsible for guiding technical decisions, managing team performance, and aligning engineering efforts with business goals.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership:
- Provide technical leadership and direction for major projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and industry best practices.
- Be hands-on with code, maintaining high technical standards and actively participating in design and architecture decisions, code reviews, and helping engineers optimize their code.
- Ensure that high standards of performance, scalability, and reliability are maintained when architecting, designing, and developing complex software systems and applications.
- Ensure accountability for the team’s technical decisions and enforce engineering best practices (e.g., documentation, automation, code management, security principles, leverage CoPilot).
- Ensure the health and quality of services and incidents, proactively identifying and addressing issues. Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for action. Implement best practices for operational excellence.
- Play a pivotal role in the R.I.D.E. (Recommend, Inform, Decide, Execute) framework.
- Understand CI/CD pipelines from build, test, to deploy phases.
Team Management:
- Lead and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment. Conduct regular performance reviews, provide feedback, and support professional development.
- Foster a culture of service ownership and enhance team engagement.
- Drive succession planning and engineering efficiency, focusing on quality and developer experience through data-driven approaches.
- Promote a growth mindset, understanding and driving organizational change.
- Actively seek opportunities for team growth and cross-functional collaboration.
- Works and guides the team on how to operate in a DevOps Model. Taking ownership from working with product management on requirements to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain the software in production.
Coaching and Development:
- Grow and develop the team technically and with a quality mindset, providing strong and actionable feedback.
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement, encouraging the team to experiment, learn, and iterate on processes and technologies.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for their adoption where appropriate to drive innovation and productivity within the team.
Execution Excellence:
- Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of high-impact software projects, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget. Manage team workload and capacity, setting priorities and managing risks and tradeoffs.
- Align team efforts with the strategic direction of the company, understanding the big picture and business needs.
- Demonstrate engineering excellence and service ownership, including cost and quality management of services, and effective production management.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and operations, to ensure alignment and successful delivery of projects. Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
- Make deployment decisions with appropriate risk mitigation.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of experience in software development, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role and 2+ years in a people management role.
- Ensure AI-enabled features are introduced safely, transparently, and compliantly.
- Proven track record of leading and delivering large-scale, complex software projects.
- Experience leading teams building SaaS, enterprise, or highly available production systems.
- Deep expertise in one or more programming languages such as C#, .NET, Python, Java, or JavaScript.
- Extensive experience with software architecture and design patterns.
- Strong understanding of cloud technologies and DevOps principles.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence and drive change.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
- Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
- Experience in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- Familiarity with developing accessible technologies.
Company Overview:
UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
UKG is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, disability, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.
View The EEO Know Your Rights poster
UKG participates in E-Verify.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process
For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com.
Pay Transparency:
The pay range for this position is $129,500.00 to $187,100.00. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation. Learn more about UKG’s benefits and rewards at ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits
NOTICE ON HIRING SCAMS
UKG will never ask you for a copy of your driver’s license, social security card, or passport during a job interview.
ABOUT OUR JOB DESCRIPTIONS
All job descriptions are written to accurately reflect the open job and include general work responsibilities. They do not present a comprehensive, detailed inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required for the job. Management reserves the right to revise the job or require that other or different tasks be performed if or when circumstances change.
Job description
Company and benefits
Job ID: MGRSO017684
Employment Type: Regular
Work Style: hybrid
Location: Sunrise, FL, United States
Travel: Up to 25%
Role
Mgr. Software Engineering - SRE
Why UKG:
At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That’s what we do.
We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you’ll get flexibility that’s real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters—and so do you.
About the role:
We are seeking a seasoned Software Engineering Manager to join our dynamic team. As a first-line manager, you will lead a team of talented engineers, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of ownership, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-impact projects. You will be responsible for guiding technical decisions, managing team performance, and aligning engineering efforts with business goals.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership:
- Provide technical leadership and direction for major projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and industry best practices.
- Be hands-on with code, maintaining high technical standards and actively participating in design and architecture decisions, code reviews, and helping engineers optimize their code.
- Ensure that high standards of performance, scalability, and reliability are maintained when architecting, designing, and developing complex software systems and applications.
- Ensure accountability for the team’s technical decisions and enforce engineering best practices (e.g., documentation, automation, code management, security principles, leverage CoPilot).
- Ensure the health and quality of services and incidents, proactively identifying and addressing issues. Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for action. Implement best practices for operational excellence.
- Play a pivotal role in the R.I.D.E. (Recommend, Inform, Decide, Execute) framework.
- Understand CI/CD pipelines from build, test, to deploy phases.
Team Management:
- Lead and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment. Conduct regular performance reviews, provide feedback, and support professional development.
- Foster a culture of service ownership and enhance team engagement.
- Drive succession planning and engineering efficiency, focusing on quality and developer experience through data-driven approaches.
- Promote a growth mindset, understanding and driving organizational change.
- Actively seek opportunities for team growth and cross-functional collaboration.
- Works and guides the team on how to operate in a DevOps Model. Taking ownership from working with product management on requirements to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain the software in production.
Coaching and Development:
- Grow and develop the team technically and with a quality mindset, providing strong and actionable feedback.
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement, encouraging the team to experiment, learn, and iterate on processes and technologies.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for their adoption where appropriate to drive innovation and productivity within the team.
Execution Excellence:
- Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of high-impact software projects, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget. Manage team workload and capacity, setting priorities and managing risks and tradeoffs.
- Align team efforts with the strategic direction of the company, understanding the big picture and business needs.
- Demonstrate engineering excellence and service ownership, including cost and quality management of services, and effective production management.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and operations, to ensure alignment and successful delivery of projects. Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
- Make deployment decisions with appropriate risk mitigation.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of experience in software development, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role and 2+ years in a people management role.
- Ensure AI-enabled features are introduced safely, transparently, and compliantly.
- Proven track record of leading and delivering large-scale, complex software projects.
- Experience leading teams building SaaS, enterprise, or highly available production systems.
- Deep expertise in one or more programming languages such as C#, .NET, Python, Java, or JavaScript.
- Extensive experience with software architecture and design patterns.
- Strong understanding of cloud technologies and DevOps principles.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence and drive change.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
- Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
- Experience in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- Familiarity with developing accessible technologies.
Company Overview:
UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
UKG is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, disability, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.
View The EEO Know Your Rights poster
UKG participates in E-Verify.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process
For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com.
Pay Transparency:
The pay range for this position is $129,500.00 to $187,100.00. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation. Learn more about UKG’s benefits and rewards at ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits
NOTICE ON HIRING SCAMS
UKG will never ask you for a copy of your driver’s license, social security card, or passport during a job interview.
ABOUT OUR JOB DESCRIPTIONS
All job descriptions are written to accurately reflect the open job and include general work responsibilities. They do not present a comprehensive, detailed inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required for the job. Management reserves the right to revise the job or require that other or different tasks be performed if or when circumstances change.
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Align your resume to UKG's stack
UKG's engineering roles consistently surface requirements around Java, cloud-native architecture, and SaaS platform development. Tailor your resume to reflect these directly so it clears both ATS filters and recruiter screens before sponsorship even comes up.
Target roles built for long-term headcount
UKG sponsors across H-1B, TN, and employment-based Green Card pathways, which signals they hire for retention, not just project gaps. Focus your applications on senior or staff-level engineering roles where PERM sponsorship is a realistic downstream outcome.
Get your credentials evaluated before applying
If your engineering degree is from outside the United States, obtain a credential evaluation from a NACES-approved service before interviews begin. Specialty occupation determinations for H-1B petitions require your degree to align with the specific role UKG is filing for.
Clarify OPT start dates with your recruiter early
If you're on F-1 OPT, you have up to 90 days of unemployment tolerance under USCIS rules. Nail down your expected start date in your first recruiter conversation so there's no gap between your current authorization end date and your first day at UKG.
Understand where UKG sits in the H-1B calendar
H-1B cap-subject petitions have an April 1 filing window and an October 1 start date. If UKG extends an offer after the lottery, your earliest cap-subject start is the following October. Confirm this timeline with your hiring manager so both sides can plan accordingly.
Use Migrate Mate to filter open engineering roles
UKG posts engineering positions across multiple locations and teams throughout the year. Use Migrate Mate to filter UKG's open engineering roles by visa type so you're only applying to positions where your specific authorization pathway is confirmed.
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Find Engineering at UKG JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does UKG sponsor H-1B visas for Engineers?
Yes, UKG sponsors H-1B visas for engineering roles. Given that UKG builds enterprise SaaS and workforce management platforms, engineering positions typically qualify as specialty occupations under USCIS criteria, which is the foundational requirement for H-1B eligibility. If you're a current F-1 OPT holder, UKG can also support the cap-subject H-1B petition process before your OPT expires.
How do I apply for Engineering jobs at UKG?
Apply directly through UKG's careers portal or browse verified sponsorship-confirmed openings on Migrate Mate. When applying, make your work authorization status clear in your application. UKG's recruiting team handles sponsorship questions during the offer stage, but flagging your visa situation early in the screening process avoids surprises and speeds up internal approvals.
Which visa types does UKG commonly use for Engineering roles?
UKG sponsors engineering candidates through H-1B, TN, and F-1 OPT and CPT, and also supports employment-based Green Card sponsorship through the EB-2 and EB-3 categories via the PERM labor certification process. TN is available for Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying engineering occupations under USMCA. The right pathway depends on your citizenship, degree field, and the specific role's requirements.
What qualifications does UKG look for in sponsored Engineering candidates?
UKG's engineering roles typically require a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related technical field. For H-1B purposes, USCIS requires the degree to directly relate to the role's duties, so generalist degrees with limited technical coursework can complicate the petition. Hands-on experience with UKG's core technology areas, including cloud infrastructure, Java-based backend systems, or SaaS platform development, strengthens both your application and the specialty occupation case.
How long does the sponsorship process take for Engineering roles at UKG?
Timeline depends on the visa type. TN and H-1B transfers for candidates already in valid H-1B status can move quickly, sometimes within weeks. A new cap-subject H-1B requires clearing the lottery and waiting until October 1 for the work start date. PERM-based Green Card sponsorship through EB-2 or EB-3 takes significantly longer due to DOL's labor certification review, which typically runs six months to over a year before USCIS petition filing.
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