Oriyans-sunset/ibm-ems-capstone-project ? reverse-engineered prompt

Build me a simple employee management system for a company, with separate services for authentication, employees, attendance, and payroll.

I want it to feel like a real capstone project, so employees can sign in, view and update their profile, attendance can be tracked, and payroll can be calculated from the employee and attendance data. Make the services work together cleanly, and include the basic backend endpoints and data models needed for a working first version.

If anything is unclear, make sensible choices and keep it practical. Use the existing project structure, and if you need to look up current docs online while wiring things up, go ahead. Please also make sure the project builds and runs without obvious issues, and add a few simple examples or seed data so it is easy to test right away.