Hiring: Manager Engineering Company: Paylocity Location: Pittsford, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 14:07:14 Employment Type: Full-time / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : .NET, AWS, Agile, C#, LLM About the job Experience: •5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a formal engineering management role Required Skills: •AI Labs is Paylocity's team for rapid AI experimentation — we test and validate new AI-driven ideas quickly, with a bias toward hands-on building over long planning cycles. •Growing a new, early-career-focused engineering team based in the Rochester, NY area, and looking for a technical, hands-on manager to lead it from the ground up. •Help shape both the team and its technical direction, working across real AI Labs projects from day one. This role reports to the Director for AI Labs. •Lead and manage a founding team of early-career engineers, co-located with you in Rochester, ensuring their work stays aligned with AI Labs' bets and Paylocity's broader goals. •Mentor and coach technically and professionally •Create real growth opportunities, recognize achievement publicly, and reward high performance appropriately. •Give regular, direct feedback on individual performance. •Build a team you invest in deeply and expect to see graduate into other engineering roles across Paylocity. Qualifications: •You've led and mentored engineers before, ideally early-career talent specifically, and know how to balance hands-on technical guidance with giving people room to own real work. •A servant leader: you remove blockers and create opportunities for your team, and direct as needed. •A strong communicator who shifts naturally between technical depth with your team and business framing with executives and stakeholders. •Strong technical skills not tied to one stack, comfortable diving deep across a wide range of technologies and project types. •Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating cloud-based solutions in AWS, with a solid grasp of modern cloud architecture, scalability, security, and operational practice. •Real experience building applications that use AI technologies directly — integrating AI services, LLMs, or other intelligent features into actual products, not just reading about them. •Fluent in frontier AI tools as part of your own workflow (Claude, OpenAI, Copilot, or similar). You use them day to day, not just know they exist. •A strong enough grasp of what your team builds and why to pressure-test any technical tradeoff they make. •Genuinely passionate about exploring new ideas and tracking where AI is heading as you experiment with what you learn. •Comfortable with ambiguity, wearing whatever hat the moment calls for since this team’s work is very exploratory. Compensation: •$148,800 - $212,500 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!