Software Engineer

About the role

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating.

Responsibilities

• Independently own larged-scoped projects from initial discovery through launch with a focus on outcomes and customer impact
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to find solutions to customer challenges
• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our existing systems
• Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing, and mentorship
• Add capabilities to our high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure
• Enhance our testing, monitoring, and continuous deployment infrastructure
• Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of professional development experience
• Proficiency in server-side languages like Python, Java, Node.js, or Ruby (Go experience is a plus)
• Solid SQL skills and understanding of database fundamentals
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS (basic deployment and monitoring)
• Interest in helping junior developers and contributing to team knowledge sharing
• Experience collaborating with designers and product managers on feature development

Skills and knowledge

• Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome
• Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better
• Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism
• Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking
• Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve

Technologies Used

• Golang
• Ruby on Rails
• Javascript
• MySQL
• Kafka
• AWS
• Docker
• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• CircleCI
• DataDog

Benefits

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $131,000- $169,000 per year. Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.