Senior Software Engineer, Justworks
Risk Products
$167.5-205k
Business operations platform
Job no longer available
Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$167.5-205k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Experience building new feature from scratch, using clean, organized, and scalable code
- Experience supporting other engineers and acting as a “tech lead”
- Experience working with complicated systems at scale
- Experience working using Agile/Scrum methodology in a fast-paced environment
- Experience in a high-growth environment working with deadlines and milestones
What the job involves
- 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 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
- As a member of the Employer Risk team, you will be focusing on building technology that powers Justworks’ workers’ compensation insurance program
- This program provides thousands of small businesses with mission-critical insurance coverage while contributing significantly to Justworks’ bottom line
- As Justworks continues to grow and expand the types of businesses we serve, we are rethinking our technology platform to support more dynamic and streamlined business execution, while innovating new ways to serve our customers
- As a Senior Software Engineer joining the team, here’s what that will look like for you:
- 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
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
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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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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