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ADP

Lead Software Engineer

roseland, NJ

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About this opportunity

ADP lists this Lead Software Engineer opportunity in roseland, New Jersey. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

Are you empathetic to client needs and inspired by transformation and impacting the lives of millions of people every day?

Are you looking to join a dynamic, inclusive team environment with a culture of collaboration and belonging?

ADP Innovation Labs

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer with extensive NodeJS experience to join an emerging team.

In this role, you will work within a cross-skilled team set out to design and develop new innovative products for Small Businesses. You will be working with technologies such as NodeJS, DSQL, GraphQL, Docker, and ADLC. We are customer oriented, feedback oriented, and we adapt fast – and for that we’re looking to build a state-of-the-art tech stack with cutting edge CI and CD processes.

What You'll Do

Scrum. You'll start each day with a scrum, working in a team to understand responsibilities, identify issues, and communicate coding priorities while choosing user stories to complete. You will also participate in other agile ceremonies, including scheduled sprint demos, where you will present your work to up to 90 stakeholders.

Build teams that thrive. As an experienced leader, you want everyone to shine. You'll start each day by checking in with your engineering team to identify priorities and challenges. You'll find a way to make the team's day go smoother. You are constantly looking for ways to share your knowledge, motivate others and keep everyone engaged and productive.

Build Products. You will use your technical expertise to review your team's work and help your people excel in an Agile environment. You're proactive and hands‐on. When you see a potential issue, you never leave things hanging and unfinished. When you and your team deliver a finished product, it's as polished as you could make it.

Variety of work. There is no typical day. You could be checking in with a team in India one minute, meeting with leadership to review initiatives for the coming quarter later and tomorrow handling a few ad hoc requests from your peers in other departments.

Influence and inspire confidence. You are comfortable presenting to senior leaders, product owners, and peers with a compelling voice that you demonstrate through executive presence, leading change, and creating clear executive‑level communications on milestone achievements.

Experience. You have 8-12 years of experience in relevant skills gained and developed in the same or similar role.

Responsibilities

Develop frontend and backend services in NodeJS and React

Performance tuning, both on code and database levels

Support production software operations, test and debug programs

Develop and extend CI and CD pipeline

Design and maintain automated monitoring, alerting and reporting systems

Report progress and status of assigned tasks to project teams and managers

Build responsible applications using ReactJS

To Succeed In This Role

You'll have a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent.

Qualifications

Expert in Node.js or Java development – minimum 5 years working experience

Experience designing and developing highly available, and performant applications

TDD experience and an advocate for best software development practices

Extensive experience with at least one other modern programming language in addition to NodeJS, such as C#, Go, Python.

Strong experience with No‑SQL and SQL databases

Experience with tools such as Cloud Technology‑AWS, Jenkins and Docker

DevOPS and Build Engineering experience is a plus

AI/ML Foundational Proficiencies

AI/LLM Exposure. Familiar with major AI platforms (OpenAI, Anthropic, others) and ability to leverage to enhance products and features.

AI-Assisted Dev Tools. Proficient with coding tools (ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot, Amazon Q, Cursor, etc).

AI Best Practices. Effective prompt engineering, performance optimization, and secure data handling.

You'll Love Working Here Because You Can

Have courageous team collaboration. Courage comes from how associates are willing to have difficult conversations, speak up, be an owner, and challenge one another's ideas to find the best solution.

Deliver at epic scale. We deliver real user outcomes using strong judgment and good instincts. We're obsessed with the art of achieving simplicity with a focus on client happiness and productivity.

Be surrounded by curious learners. We align ourselves with other smart people in an environment where we grow and elevate one another to the next level. We encourage our associates to listen, stay agile, and learn from mistakes.

Act like an owner - doer. Mission‑driven and committed to leading change, you will be encouraged to take on any challenge and solve complex problems. No tasks are beneath or too great for us. We are hands‑on and willing to master our craft.

Give back to others. Always do the right thing for our clients and our community and humbly give back to the community where we live and work. Support our associates in times of need through ADP's Philanthropic Foundation.

Join a company committed to equality and equity. Our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions.

Find out why people come to ADP and why they stay:

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Base salary offers for this position may vary based on factors such as location, skills, and relevant experience. Some positions may include additional compensation in the form of bonus, equity or commissions. We offer the following benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Matched Retirement Savings, Wellness Program, Short-and Long‑Term Disability, Charitable Contribution Match, Holidays, Personal Days & Vacation, Paid Volunteer Time Off, and more. The compensation for this role is USD $93,400.00 - USD $230,000.00 / Year*

Actual compensation will not be less than the applicable minimum wage or minimum exempt salary requirement under federal, state and local laws.

A little about ADP: We are a comprehensive global provider of cloud‑based human capital management (HCM) solutions that unite HR, payroll, talent, time, tax and benefits administration and a leader in business outsourcing services, analytics, and compliance expertise. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating a down‑to‑earth culture that embraces our core values, welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We've received recognition for our work by many esteemed organizations, learn more at ADP Awards and Recognition.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at ADP:

ADP is committed to an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace, and is further committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic including: race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, protected veteran status or disability. Hiring decisions are based upon ADP's operating needs, and applicant merit including, but not limited to, qualifications, experience, ability, availability, cooperation, and job performance.

Ethics at ADP:

ADP has a long, proud history of conducting business with the highest ethical standards and full compliance with all applicable laws. We also expect our people to uphold our values with the highest level of integrity and behave in a manner that fosters an honest and respectful workplace. Click to learn more about ADP's culture and our full set of values.

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