Senior Staff Software Engineer
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Who We Are

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. If you d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you ll fit right in.

Senior Staff Software Engineer Justworks, Inc. New York, NY.

Job Duties: Drive the multi-year journey of architecting and building secure, scalable, distributed architecture of Justworks. Work with other engineers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to bring new products and features to our customers, typically in an iterative fashion, taking into account user feedback. Partner with product and platform engineering leads and solve mission critical problems with high quality engineering disciplines. Work with UX Architect and Design Leads to improve customer experience. Collaborate with Infrastructure and Security Leads in advancing our security posture by improving identity management and adding deeper insights. Work with cross-functional leads to define and be accountable for delivering business/customer value and metrics. Drive sound technical decision-making and lead technical conversations with other teams across Justworks. Enhance testing, monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure. Scope and lead complex projects or changes that will benefit the entire organization. Help define and communicate technical standards and best practices. Lead and facilitate workshops, architecture sessions, etc. to drive the technical vision forward. Serve as a role model for and work towards improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes. Mentor engineers to help them grow their technical skills by fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Bring new ideas to scale the engineering organization as a key partner to the senior engineering leadership group. Communicate effectively to senior leaders from other functions and/or businesses.

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor s Degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field. Must have 10 years of professional experience working with complicated software systems at scale. Must have 10 years of experience in software architecture, data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and multiple engineering team collaboration. Must have 5 years of experience in leadership without formal direct reporting relationships, building APIs or webhooks, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, and AWS. Must have 3 years of experience in Git, ElasticSearch, InfluxDB, Redshift, Jenkins, Nagios, Rollbar, Ruby on Rails and/or React, GraphQL, Docker, and DataDog. Must be able to work a hybrid work arrangement with Tuesdays and Thursdays required in office.

Must have legal authority to work in the U.S. EEOE.

Annual salary offered: $250,000 - $287,500.

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.

For more information about Justworks Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.

Diversity At Justworks

Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.

We re proud to be 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.

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