Frontend Software Engineer, Justworks
$115-160k
Business operations platform
Be an early applicant
Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$115-160k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- You’ve been building web applications for a while now and are comfortable ramping up on an existing product quickly
- You’ve mastered at least one frontend framework, and know how to build highly reliable, modular systems that many people can collaborate on at the same time without stepping on each other’s toes
- You have a strong sense for good design, and won’t stop until the user experience is just right
- 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
- Minimum of 3+ year experience in Frontend development
- Mastery of JS/HTML/CSS and at least one framework such as React, Vue, etc
- Working knowledge in at least one server side language, such as Ruby, Python, Golang, etc
What the job involves
- As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will be a part of our Frontend Engineering team, focusing on delivering products and capabilities that power Justworks products
- 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.
- You’ll be a part of a team developing frontend web apps for both internal and public use
- Gather requirements
- Partner with your team lead to produce clean, effective, on-brand user experiences
- Implement designs with a high level of fidelity
- Research design patterns and propose technical solutions to common web UI/UX problems
- Coding, testing, and deploying modern web apps
- Help hire and develop our growing team
- As a Frontend Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization
- Technologies Used:
- JS, TS, Vue 3, Vite, PostCSS, Playwright, Node, Fastify, Golang, Mysql, AWS, Git
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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