Senior Software Engineer Onboarding

Are you passionate about system design and development? Do you have experience building deploying and maintaining large-scale distributed applications? Are you ready to take your skills to the next level and join a team of innovative self-starters in a supportive entrepreneurial environment?

As a Senior Software Engineer you will be leveraging your experience working within a service-oriented architecture. You will be responsible for separating data and functionality as necessary and will demonstrate an understanding and use of automated testing as a productivity multiplier. You are eager to learn and passionate about improvement. You want to understand how systems work and you think about how to make them work even better. You will work closely with product managers designers and other engineers to scope design and build new features and functionality. You will be working primarily on backend systems. We’re currently using Ruby on Rails as our main language but prior experience in RoR is not a requirement.

The Onboarding teams transform a weeks-long support-heavy onboarding process into a fully self-serve experience leveraging AI-powered data ingestion and real-time validation to take companies from signed contract to running payroll in a matter of days. A core part of this work is unifying how people join Justworks — today full-time contractor and international hires across PEO ASO and EOR each follow entirely different flows and this role brings them all into one. Ultimately this is about building the first product experience every new customer has. If onboarding feels hard nothing else matters — making this role a direct driver of activation rate time-to-first-payroll and onboarding completion.

• Collaborate with a cross functional team to design a next-generation platform to unlock new business capabilities
• Take ownership of designing and implementing APIs systems integrations and backend services
• Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership knowledge-sharing and mentorship
• Instate best-practices observability and monitoring as “first principles” of all our services
• Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure
• Perform other related duties as assigned

As a Senior Software Engineer how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role your foundational knowledge skills abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:

• 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.

In addition all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• 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.”

• Minimum of 6 years of professional hands-on experience
• Expertise in backend systems
• Strong object-oriented design and coding skills
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience modeling complex real-world problems with robust data models and systems
• Experience supporting other engineers and acting as a “tech lead”
• Experience using Agile/Scrum methodology in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in a high-growth environment working with deadlines and milestones

Technologies Used

• Languages: Ruby on Rails Javascript
• Messaging / APIs: Kafka GraphQL Apollo Redis
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes Docker CircleCI DataDog AWS

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $167500.00 to $205000.00 per year.

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What We Do

Justworks is a cloud-based software platform that takes the busyness out of growing a business and alleviates the unknown. We've combined a simple platform and exceptional 24/7 customer service to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence by giving them access to corporate-level benefits automated payroll HR tools and compliance support— all in one place.

Why Work With Us

We're building a world in which starting running and joining a growing business is an accessible option for all. If you want to work in an entrepreneurial environment build something meaningful and have fun while doing it join us.

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