Software Engineer, Justworks
Marketing Website
$115-155k
Business operations platform
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Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$115-155k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Good Judgment - Apply critical thinking to analyze, assess, and solve complex problems, understanding risks and making informed decisions
- Resourcefulness - Demonstrate a can-do attitude, overcoming obstacles and constraints with innovative solutions, even when faced with unknowns
- Teamwork and Communication - Work effectively with others, building strong relationships, communicating clearly, and sharing knowledge to achieve collective success
- Influence and Leadership - Lead by example, mentoring others, fostering collaboration, and driving forward-thinking initiatives
- Skills and Knowledge - Continuously learn and apply specific domain knowledge and best practices to enhance and improve our APIs and services
- Minimum of 2 years of professional hands-on experience
- You collaborate with technical and non-technical partners for mutual benefit
- You face complexity with eagerness and confidence
- You are a self-starter and seek out opportunities for growth
- You thrive working with a team of diverse backgrounds and identities and you seek to bring out the best in your teammates
- Experience in React (preferred)
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer, you will be a part of our Marketing Website team, focusing on delivering products and capabilities that power the Justworks website
- You will leverage your experience working with customer-facing applications and design with performance and security in mind
- You will be working primarily in JavaScript/TypeScript and prior experience is preferred
- The Marketing Website team’s mission is to deliver capabilities that unlock value-adds for the marketing team to improve our ability to convert leads into new customers through digital channels
- Joining our team as a Software Engineer, you will apply your experience with technology to creatively push the boundaries of what is possible for our marketing team, elevating Justworks’ marketing footprint
- Work closely with other engineers, product managers and designers on a daily basis
- Play a key role in impactful and visible efforts to scale our technology, improve our performance, and capitalize on business opportunities
- Evangelize software development best practices to ensure the sustainability of our technology, and motivate other engineers to do the same
- Multiply the impact of engineers on your team through mentorship and empowerment
- Ship products and features that generate immediate value and feedback -- then iterate on them
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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