Senior Software Engineer, New Products - New York, United States - Justworks

Description

Who You Are

Are you passionate about 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 Fullstack Software Engineer on Justworks' New Products team, you will have the opportunity to take a project team from "zero to one" by leveraging your aptitude for navigating ambiguity and your experience working within a service-oriented architecture. If you are someone who:

Has a founder's mindset who enjoys building and scaling a team, setting standards, being a mentor

Places emphasis on a team finding the right answer ahead of any one person being the one who was right

Thinks in terms of outcomes rather than outputs

Avoids over-engineering solutions and appreciate how building software can be a means for learning, gaining insights, and ultimately solving problems that people actually have

We'd love to hear from you

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

Collaborate with a tight-knit, cross-functional team to find solutions to customer challenges

Take ownership of building flexible, test-driven software that minimizes tech debt and enables change

Support, monitor, and maintain integrations with industry leading third-party platforms

Shape API driven services that are secure, compliant, and highly auditable

Enable an experience that is fully internationalized and localized for a global customer base

Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship

Enhance our testing, monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure

Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure

Perform other related duties as assigned

How You Will Do Your Work

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."

Qualifications

5+ years of professional hands-on software development experience

Strong object-oriented design and coding skills and solid understanding of data structures and algorithms

Proven experience architecting solutions for complicated systems

Experience working on early stage products and building new feature from scratch, using clean, organized, and scalable code

Experience supporting other engineers and acting as a "tech lead"

Experience working using Agile/Scrum methodology in a fast-paced environment

Experience in a high-growth environment working with deadlines and milestones

Experience working on software that enables money movement would be beneficial

Technologies Used

We are building a highly available and globally distributed Ruby on Rails API with Kubernetes on AWS. The front-end is built on React with TypeScript and GraphQL. Observability, monitoring, and metrics are managed through DataDog and Rollbar. Internal tooling is built with Retool.

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $167,500.00 to $205,000.00 per year.

#LI-Hybrid

Justworks focuses on Internet, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Payments, and Human Resources. Their company has offices in New York City and New York. They have a large team that's between employees. To date, Justworks has raised $143M of funding; their latest round was closed on January 2020.

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