Senior Software Engineer, Justworks
Payroll
$167.5-205k
Business operations platform
Open for applications
Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$167.5-205k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 5 years real-world experience working as a software engineer on production code, with a focus in backend and API development
- Advanced knowledge of a server-side language such as Ruby, Python, Go, or Node
- Fluency in at least one SQL dialect and experience in relational database schema design
- Understanding of how to build resilient and maintainable systems in complicated business domains at scale
- Comfortable proactively identifying tasks and strategically establishing deadlines and milestones to drive the achievement of business objectives
- Thrives in a collaborative environment that fosters the exchange of diverse ideas and values the collective effort to achieve common outcomes
- The ability to distill simple solutions and architectures out of complicated problems and good judgment to select the right tools for the job
What the job involves
- As a backend engineer, you’ll focus on building the payroll and payroll taxation services that power Justworks’ payroll and taxation products
- You will take ownership in technical decision-making on a mission-critical team and work closely with our stakeholders to ensure that we are enabling the Payments and Tax Unit to scale its operations
- Design, implement and maintain services and APIs that power tax and withholding calculations as well as payroll for Justworks customers
- Scale and improve performance of mission-critical systems that require a high degree of accuracy
- Take an active role in project planning, including translating product requirements into deliverable pieces and sequencing them in a manner that brings value to the business
- Develop deep subject matter expertise in payroll taxation so that our engineering and operations stakeholders don’t have to
- Work collaboratively with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to bring new products and features to our customers
- Channel empathy for our internal stakeholders to create better user experiences with an eye towards making workflows easier and more efficient
- Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship
- Enhance our testing and monitoring infrastructure
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Our take
Justworks operates in an increasingly crowded space of all-in-one business operation suites, that include tools like human resources, payroll, employee management, benefits, and others that businesses critically need to operate as they scale.
Globally, human resource management has become an extremely fertile field, worth over $20 billion annually and predicted to grow to over $50 billion annually by 2030 - creating great opportunity for Justworks to continue to grow. The company is regarded as a market leader, but does see competition in the shape of Paychex Flex, Rippling, Paylocity, and TriNet, among others.
Solutions delivered by Justworks have proven to be extremely popular with SMEs, and this has not gone unnoticed by investors, with the company picking up exceptional amounts of funding. Justworks is known to have sights on going public, though action towards this end has been delayed until global mass-market conditions have settled from a period of volatility. However, the company's acquisition of
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$16.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $159.9m
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer work.
- Paid parental leave.
- Work from home opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc.
- Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more.
- All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure.
- Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching.
- Engineering Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth
Company values
- Camaraderie: As a growing company, we know how crucial teamwork, higher purpose, and a healthy dose of fun can be to success. Be an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness: We believe in radical transparency. This means being willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. Be curious, ask open questions, and be receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit: They say when the going gets tough, the tough get going. We are a team of hardworking individuals with the courage to persevere. Be committed, be earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity: We do the right thing. Be honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity: We make things easy for everyone to understand and do. Be innovative, unafraid of streamlining processes, a clear and concise communicator, and don't overcomplicate solutions.
Company HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
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Leadership
Isaac Oates
(Executive Chair)Experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon before founding Adtuitive and serving as COO for a year. Left this position to spend 3 years as a VP at Etsy, before founding Justworks.
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