Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer for Workforce Payments, you will work with the team that builds the core computation layer powering Justworks’ payroll, money movement, and tax calculation products. You will lead technical decision-making and take initiative in identifying projects that enable scaling tax and money movement capabilities, improving financial ledger integrity, and developing robust platform interfaces for payroll data.

• Independently own large-scoped projects from discovery through launch, focusing on outcomes and customer impact.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve customer challenges.
• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of existing systems.
• Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing, and mentorship.
• Add capabilities to high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure.
• Enhance testing, monitoring, and continuous deployment infrastructure.
• Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure.

• Minimum of 7 years of professional hands-on experience.
• Mastery of modern server-side languages; Golang is a plus but not required.
• Proficiency with SQL.
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure management, preferably AWS.
• Experience supporting and mentoring other engineers.
• Experience working closely with designers and product managers.

Golang, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, DataDog.

The base wage range for this position based in the New York City Office is targeted at $188,000.00 to $242,000.00 per year. Actual compensation is based on multiple factors including skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Justworks offers a welcoming environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, and company retreats. For more information, visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.

This role is based in New York, New York, and is hybrid (#LI-Hybrid).

Justworks is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities.