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Soreco Powers Payroll Software Development for Modern HR Operations
HQSwitzerland
IndustryEnterprise Software & SaaS
EngagementFull dedicated product-engineering team, long-term

Soreco Powers Payroll Software Development for Modern HR Operations

Axon Active partners with Soreco for payroll software development through a dedicated software development team building a modern payroll platform that streamlines HR operations and ensures reliable processing. The team works closely with Swiss stakeholders to deliver a secure, cloud-based solution that improves efficiency, reduces manual effort, and supports consistent, compliant payroll execution.

The team delivers payroll software development for Soreco's modern payroll platform
About the client

Who Soreco is

Soreco focuses on HR software development to simplify payroll operations and compliance. Soreco.Payroll is a secure cloud payroll platform hosted in Switzerland, providing Swiss payroll software that replaces manual processes with efficient, automated workflows.

The solution centralizes employee data, streamlines salary processing, and ensures alignment with Swiss tax and social security requirements. Built-in integrations with banks, insurance providers, and government systems reduce administrative effort and improve data consistency. Axon Active’s engineering team in Vietnam provides long-term engineering capacity, working closely with Swiss stakeholders to support continuous product evolution.

How we work together

Dedicated team delivery with strong governance and continuity

Axon Active provides a dedicated development team that operates as an embedded delivery partner within Soreco’s engineering organization, following a hybrid Scrum–Kanban model with two-week sprints. Each sprint includes joint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring continuous alignment and the steady delivery of demo-ready increments.

Regular timezone overlap between Vietnam and Switzerland enables real-time collaboration for key ceremonies and decisions, while structured asynchronous workflows keep development moving outside shared working hours.

The long-term team model allows the same engineers to contribute across successive sprints, building deep product knowledge, reducing onboarding effort, and maintaining delivery continuity. Swiss account leadership remains closely involved, providing governance, risk management, and roadmap alignment.

What We Do

Soreco.Payroll – Digital payroll management core

The team owns the end-to-end payroll software development of Soreco.Payroll, delivering HR software development expertise to replace fragmented, manual workflows with a unified digital solution. By centralizing employee data and automating complex payroll calculations, the platform reduces administrative effort while advancing payroll automation and minimizing processing risks. It provides an intuitive interface for managing contracts, taxes, and payslips within a single environment. Flexible wage type handling, automated historization, and accurate retroactive calculations ensure reliable payroll processing, while built-in support aligns with Swiss cantonal tax regulations and accounting requirements.

Operational efficiency is further enhanced through seamless integrations with insurance providers, banks, and government systems. As payroll compliance software, the platform supports compliant tax processing, automated reporting (ELM, FSO), and full coverage of social security schemes, alongside configurable data imports and flexible reporting capabilities.

Full-stack engineering

The team delivers end-to-end full-stack development using Angular on the frontend and Java on the backend. This approach ensures close alignment between user interfaces and underlying services, enabling faster iteration and consistent user experiences.

The team delivers full-stack development using Angular frontend and Java backend

Data layer

The platform leverages PostgreSQL for secure and reliable data management. The data layer is designed to ensure strong consistency, high performance, and long-term maintainability, supporting the accurate processing of sensitive payroll information required for payroll software development.

The team uses PostgreSQL for secure and reliable data management
The team uses GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted software development workflows
AI-Augmented Development

Enhancing developer productivity with AI tooling

The team has integrated AI-assisted tooling, including GitHub Copilot, into the daily development workflow. These tools accelerate routine engineering tasks without replacing human judgment. Code generation is reviewed, test suggestions are validated, and documentation drafts are edited by engineers.

Adoption followed a structured onboarding period where the team assessed output quality and established norms for AI tool usage. The result is a workflow where AI tooling reduces friction in repetitive tasks while ensuring engineers remain accountable for every line of code shipped.

Learn more about how Axon Active governs AI in delivery.

Meet the team

Who sits on the engagement

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Tech stack

Technology Stack, AI Tools & Integrations

Tech stack
Axon Ivy (Custom)AngularJSF/PrimeFacesJavaPostgreSQL
AI Tools
GitHub Copilot
Integrations
ELMFSO
By the numbers

Partnership and impact

15+ Years

Long-term partnership

Continuous collaboration and platform evolution over more than fifteen years

Thousands of employees

Supporting large-scale Payroll operations

The system serves companies with large workforces, ensuring reliable and accurate payroll processing

Swissdec certified

Compliance with Swiss Payroll standards

Certified to meet Swissdec requirements for standardized and compliant payroll reporting

Common questions

How this engagement works

How do you support payroll software development in a regulated environment like Switzerland?

We support payroll platform development in regulated environments by combining stable engineering delivery with strict alignment to local compliance requirements.

For Soreco.Payroll, the system is designed to handle Swiss-specific regulations, including cantonal tax rules, social security schemes, and reporting standards such as ELM and FSO. The engineering team works closely with Swiss stakeholders to ensure that regulatory requirements are consistently reflected in both system logic and user workflows.

Instead of treating compliance as an afterthought, it is embedded directly into the platform’s data models, validation rules, and reporting processes—ensuring reliable, audit-ready payroll execution at scale.

How does the platform reduce manual effort and operational overhead for HR teams?

The platform reduces administrative burden by centralising payroll processes and automating repetitive tasks.

HR teams can manage employee data, contracts, salary components, and payslips within a single system, eliminating the need to work across multiple tools. Automated calculations, historisation, and retroactive adjustments reduce the risk of manual errors, while one-click payroll execution streamlines monthly operations.

Additionally, integrations with banks, insurance providers, and government systems minimise data duplication and manual coordination—allowing HR teams to focus more on strategic workforce management rather than routine administrative work.

How do you ensure data accuracy and reliability when handling sensitive payroll information?

Data accuracy is ensured through a combination of structured data models, automated validation, and reliable processing workflows.

PostgreSQL is used to maintain strong data consistency, while system logic enforces validation at each stage of the payroll process. Features such as automated historisation and retroactive calculation ensure that any changes are tracked and applied correctly over time.

In addition, controlled workflows and system-generated outputs reduce reliance on manual input, minimizing the risk of human error. Every change is processed through clearly defined rules, ensuring that payroll results remain consistent, traceable, and auditable.

How does the collaboration model ensure stable and predictable delivery?

The collaboration model is based on a dedicated engineering team working within a structured Agile delivery framework.

The team operates in two-week sprints with regular planning, daily coordination, and stakeholder reviews. This creates a predictable rhythm where progress is continuously visible through working software rather than delayed releases.

A daily overlap between Vietnam and Switzerland enables real-time communication for key discussions and decisions, while asynchronous workflows ensure that progress continues outside shared hours. This combination allows for both responsiveness and focus—ensuring consistent delivery without disruption.

How do you maintain long-term knowledge and continuity within the team?

Continuity is achieved through a long-term team setup with no mid-engagement rotation, allowing engineers to build deep familiarity with the product, its architecture, and domain logic.

Knowledge is reinforced through shared documentation, code reviews, and ongoing collaboration with Soreco’s stakeholders. Over time, the team develops a strong understanding of payroll workflows, regulatory requirements, and integration points—reducing onboarding effort and improving delivery efficiency.

This stability ensures that each new feature builds on existing knowledge, enabling more reliable decision-making and smoother product evolution.