Senior Backend Software Engineer, Justworks

Growth

$167.5-205k

SQL
React
AWS
JavaScript
GraphQL
Ruby
MySQL
Rails
Ruby on Rails
Golang
Senior level
New York
Justworks

Business operations platform

Job no longer available

Justworks

Business operations platform

1001+ employees

FintechB2BEnterpriseHRCompliancePaymentsSaaS

Job no longer available

$167.5-205k

SQL
React
AWS
JavaScript
GraphQL
Ruby
MySQL
Rails
Ruby on Rails
Golang
Senior level
New York

1001+ employees

FintechB2BEnterpriseHRCompliancePaymentsSaaS

Company mission

Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.

Role

Who you are

  • Minimum of 5 years of professional hands-on experience
  • Mastery of modern server side languages, Golang preferred but not required
  • Proficiency with SQL
  • Proficiency with cloud infrastructure management, preferably AWS
  • Experience supporting and mentoring other engineers and acting as a “force multiplier”
  • Experience working closely with designers and product managers

What the job involves

  • 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

Our take

Justworks operates in an increasingly crowded space of all-in-one business operation suites, that include tools like human resources, payroll, employee management, benefits, and others that businesses critically need to operate as they scale.

Globally, human resource management has become an extremely fertile field, worth over $20 billion annually and predicted to grow to over $50 billion annually by 2030 - creating great opportunity for Justworks to continue to grow. The company is regarded as a market leader, but does see competition in the shape of Paychex Flex, Rippling, Paylocity, and TriNet, among others.

Solutions delivered by Justworks have proven to be extremely popular with SMEs, and this has not gone unnoticed by investors, with the company picking up exceptional amounts of funding. Justworks is known to have sights on going public, though action towards this end has been delayed until global mass-market conditions have settled from a period of volatility. However, the company's acquisition of

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24% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Nov 2023

$16.9m

LATE VC

Jan 2020

$50m

SERIES E

Total funding: $159.9m

Company 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.
  • Engineering Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth

Company values

  • Camaraderie: As a growing company, we know how crucial teamwork, higher purpose, and a healthy dose of fun can be to success. Be an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
  • Openness: We believe in radical transparency. This means being willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. Be curious, ask open questions, and be receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
  • Grit: They say when the going gets tough, the tough get going. We are a team of hardworking individuals with the courage to persevere. Be committed, be earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
  • Integrity: We do the right thing. Be honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
  • Simplicity: We make things easy for everyone to understand and do. Be innovative, unafraid of streamlining processes, a clear and concise communicator, and don't overcomplicate solutions.

Company HQ

Fulton Ferry District, NY

Founders

Isaac Oates

(Executive Chair)

Experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon before founding Adtuitive and serving as COO for a year. Left this position to spend 3 years as a VP at Etsy, before founding Justworks.

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