Staff Software Engineer, Justworks
Frontend Tech
$220-253k
Business operations platform
Job no longer available
Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$220-253k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 8 years of professional hands-on experience in software engineering on the frontend
- Strong systems architecture skills and experience working with multiple, interconnected systems and their UIs at scale
- Experience leading and mentoring engineers without formal direct reporting relationships
- Experience proactively collaborating across different engineering teams and advocating for teams’ needs
- Experience working using Agile/Scrum methodology in a fast-paced environment
- You are comfortable and motivated working with ambiguity (you enjoy figuring out what needs to be done)
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design, and their practical applications
- Experience in React and comparable frameworks; with experience using various methods to handle state, contexts, etc. ( we expect staff candidates to leverage a diverse skill set beyond these tools)
- 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
- Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism
- Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking
- Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve
- Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others
- Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others
- Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude
- Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example
- Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer at Justworks, you will leverage your demonstrated ability to own and lead the implementation of features in large-scale, distributed applications to support the long term growth of Justworks
- You understand the concept of “separation of concerns” at multiple levels, and have leveraged design patterns to solve technical challenges
- You spend significant amounts of time directly assisting and leveling up other engineers
- You look for signal in the noise, and can detect and resolve issues before they become problems
- As a frontend-focused staff engineer, you will leverage your expertise and experience in frontend technology in engineering-wide decision making
- You will represent the multi-team Payment & Tax Unit (PTU) in front-end working groups, while being assigned to the Accountant Experience vertical within PTU
- As a staff engineer, a large part of your responsibilities include coordinating and participating in engineering efforts across teams, including scalability, performance, and modularization efforts
- Cross-team (and cross-organization) efforts are particularly important for the Accountant Experience vertical, as our objectives often require data or functionality sourced from anywhere, or provided to any team
- We often say “accounting is everywhere.” Our teams are cross-functional (not only engineering, product, design, and product marketing, but also business and operations along with other supporting roles), and you will report directly to a senior manager with a cross-team scope
- Work collaboratively with other engineers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to build features and functionality that our customers use directly, typically in an iterative fashion taking into account user feedback. For the Accountant Experience vertical, our customers are typically accountants, bookkeepers, financial admins, etc
- As part of a broad staff engineering group, scope, architect, and lead frontend initiatives that benefit multiple teams including improvements in our platform, standards, tooling, and processes
- Drive sound technical decision-making and lead technical conversations with other teams across Justworks
- Work across different applications and code bases
- Own the backlog of tech investments and technical KPIs for the vertical
- Keep our code healthy, follow good practices, and improve engineering standards by being a role model and teaching and motivating other engineers to do the same
- Mentor engineers to help them grow their technical skills by fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
- 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 2024 acquisition of the international employment-of-record (EOR) company Via is a promising sign of it's continued strength.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
Leadership
Isaac Oates
(Founder & Directive)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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