Software Engineer, Backend
Backend software engineer at Justworks, an HR/payroll platform for small businesses. Day to day: owning large projects end-to-end, scaling high-volume fault-tolerant systems, and improving testing, monitoring, and CI/CD. Stack includes Go, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Kafka, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform; role is hybrid from the NYC office.
- Compensation
- $131K–$169K / yr
- Location
- New York, New York
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Minimum 3 years of professional development experience
- Demonstrated ability to build, deploy, and maintain large-scale, complex applications
- Proficiency in server-side languages like Python, Java, Node.js, or Ruby
- 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
Nice to have
- Go experience is a plus
Full description
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.
Who You Are
You are self-driven and like to work with others to remove roadblocks. You are curious, and love to explore and learn new technologies. You have demonstrated the ability to build, deploy and maintain large-scale, complex applications. You care more about solutions and impacting the customer experience than using a particular tool or framework.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
- 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
How You Will Do Your Work
As a Software Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:
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.