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Justworks

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Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

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Summary

Senior Backend Engineer at Justworks (HR/payroll platform) owning large projects end-to-end, improving scalability and reliability of high-volume processing systems, and mentoring engineers using Go, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Kafka, and AWS/Kubernetes.

  • Independently own larged-scoped projects from initial discovery through launch with a focus on outcomes and customer impact
  • Collaborate with a cross functional team to find solutions to customer challenges
  • Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our existing systems
  • Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship
  • Add capabilities to our high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure
  • Enhance our testing, monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure
  • Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure
  • As a Senior Software Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization
  • 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
  • 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.”
  • Technologies Used
  • Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, DataDog

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
  • Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth
  • You are self-driven and like 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
  • Proficiency with SQL
  • Minimum of 5 years of professional hands-on experience
  • Experience working closely with designers and product managers
  • Proficiency with cloud infrastructure management, preferably AWS
  • Mastery of modern server side languages, Golang is a plus but not required
  • Experience supporting and mentoring other engineers and acting as a “force multiplier”

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