Software Engineer

Justworks is seeking a Software Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will independently own large-scoped projects from initial discovery through launch with a focus on outcomes and customer impact. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team to find solutions to customer challenges, improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our existing systems, and promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing, and mentorship.

Our ideal candidate is self-driven and likes to work with others to remove roadblocks. You are curious, and love to explore and learn new technologies. You have demonstrated the ability to build, deploy, and maintain large-scale, complex applications. You care more about solutions and impacting the customer experience than using a particular tool or framework.

Responsibilities include:

• Independently owning large-scoped projects from initial discovery through launch with a focus on outcomes and customer impact
• Collaborating with a cross-functional team to find solutions to customer challenges
• Improving the performance, reliability, and scalability of our existing systems
• Promoting engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing, and mentorship
• Adding capabilities to our high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure
• Enhancing our testing, monitoring, and continuous deployment infrastructure
• Keeping extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure
• Mentoring and guiding engineers, sharing best practices and design principles

Qualifications:

• Minimum 1 year of professional development experience
• Proficiency in server-side languages like Python, Java, Node.js, or Ruby (Go experience is a plus)
• Solid SQL skills and understanding of database fundamentals
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS (basic deployment and monitoring)
• Interest in helping junior developers and contributing to team knowledge sharing
• Experience collaborating with designers and product managers on feature development

Technologies Used: Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, DataDog