Justworks

Software Engineer, Backend

Justworks
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New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$131k - $169k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own large-scope backend projects independently from discovery through launch, focusing on outcomes and customer impact.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers and product managers, to solve customer challenges and deliver features.
  • Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing systems.
  • Add capabilities to high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure.
  • Enhance testing, monitoring, and continuous deployment infrastructure.
  • Build, deploy, and maintain large-scale complex applications.
  • Keep highly sensitive data compartmentalized and secure.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and support for junior developers.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of professional development experience.
  • Proficiency in server-side languages such as 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, including 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.

Benefits

  • Welcoming, casual, and supportive entrepreneurial work environment.
  • Great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and opportunities to interact with startup community leaders.
  • Hybrid role associated with the New York City office.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSCircleCIDatadogDockerElasticsearchGitGoJavaJavaScriptKubernetesMySQLNode.jsPythonRedisRubyRuby on RailsSQLTerraform

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About Justworks

1,001-5,000 employees

Justworks provides a PEO and SaaS platform for small and midsize businesses to run payroll, offer benefits, and manage HR and compliance. Products include access to health insurance and 401(k), payroll and contractor payments, onboarding tools, and reporting, sold via subscriptions and PEO service fees. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, the company is privately held and serves employers across the United States.

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