Software Engineer III- Eng
UKG · Sofia · €31,200–€42,100 (stated in the posting)
Why UKG:
At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show customers all contribute to helping millions of people around the world. We build software that helps organizations manage and empower their workforce, and we're committed to continuous innovation, collaboration, and growth.
***UKG is unable to offer sponsorship for this position.***
About the Role:
We are looking for a Software Engineer III to help deliver and improve customer-facing capabilities on a mature, business-critical enterprise platform.
In this role, you will work across the software lifecycle: understanding customer and product needs, designing technical solutions, developing and testing software, supporting production quality, and continuously improving the systems and workflows around you.
The work will primarily involve Java backend development, with some React and JavaScript UI work. You will contribute to new features, defect resolution, system improvements, and approved AI-assisted engineering workflows that improve developer productivity, software quality, troubleshooting, and documentation.
What Success Looks Like:
Successful engineers in this role:
- Deliver complex software capabilities independently.
- Take ownership of quality, maintainability, and production readiness.
- Work effectively in complex existing codebases.
- Use data, telemetry, and customer context to make better technical decisions.
- Apply automation and approved AI-assisted tools to improve productivity and quality.
- Collaborate respectfully with Product, UX, and Engineering.
- Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through example.
Responsibilities:
- Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code for various software applications and systems.
- Technical Collaborator: Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of complex software applications and systems, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance.
- Project Management: Manage execution and delivery of features and projects, negotiating project priorities and deadlines, ensuring successful and timely completion, with quality.
- Architectural Design: Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders and in the architectural design of new features and systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Code Review: Diligent about reviewing code developed by other engineers, provide feedback and maintain a high bar of technical excellence to ensure code is adhering to industry standard best practices like coding guidelines, elegant, efficient and maintainable code, with observability built from ground up, unit tests etc.
- Testing: Build testable software, define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using tools (e.g., Junit, Selenium) and Design Patterns leveraging the test automation pyramid as the guide.
- Service Health and Quality: Maintain the health and quality of services and incidents, proactively identifying and resolving issues. Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for action providing recommendations to optimize performance. Conduct thorough root cause analysis and drive the implementation of measures to prevent future recurrences.
- Platform Model: Understanding of working in a DevOps Model. Taking ownership from working with product management on requirements to design, develop, test, continuously deploy continuously deploy and operate the software in production.
- Documentation: Properly document new features, enhancements or fixes to the product, and contributing to training materials.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Deep expertise in Java, React & JS.
- 4+ years of professional software development experience.
- Extensive experience with software development practices and design patterns.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficiency with version control systems like GitHub and bug/work tracking systems like JIRA.
- Understanding of cloud technologies and DevOps principles.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience using AI-assisted software development tools to improve engineering productivity, software quality, testing, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
- Experience with test automation frameworks and tools.
- Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
- Familiarity with developing accessible solutions.
- Demonstrates strong customer empathy by understanding and addressing user needs and challenges.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
Benefits:
- 25 to 28 days of annual leave.
- Medical coverage provided by Bulstrad for you and your dependents.
- Life, AD&D, Disability & critical illness coverage provided by DZI.
- Meal vouchers provided by Edenred - EUR 95 per month.
- Employee Assistance Programs available 24/7.
- Global Tuition Reimbursement program – up to EUR 3 425 per year.
- Fertility support - up to EUR 6 525 per year.
- Adoption assistance.
- Business travel insurance.
- U choose program - EUR 275 every quarter to be spent on eligible items.
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.
UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.
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
The pay range for this position is €31,200 to €42,100 gross annually. 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 https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits