Senior Software Engineer, Justworks
Insurance Product
$167.5-205k
Business operations platform
Open for applications
Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$167.5-205k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for people that have a passion for solving real-world problems and strong engineering fundamentals to solve them
- 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
- 5+ years real-world experience working as a software engineer on production code, with a focus in backend and API development
- Advanced knowledge of a server-side language such as Ruby, Python, or Node
- Fluency in at least one SQL dialect and experience in relational database schema design
- Experience with front-end development and front-end technologies
- Understanding of how to build resilient and maintainable systems in complicated business domains at scale
- Comfortable proactively identifying tasks and strategically establishing deadlines and milestones to drive the achievement of business objectives
- Thrives in a collaborative environment that fosters the exchange of diverse ideas and values the collective effort to achieve common outcomes
- The ability to distill simple solutions and architectures out of complicated problems and good judgment to select the right tools for the job
What the job involves
- Our Insurance Product team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help model the complex world of state unemployment insurance(SUI) in software that is fast, accurate, and scalable
- SUI tax and Unemployment Claims are complex processes for small businesses. We simplify SUI compliance so that our customers can focus on what they do best
- As a Fullstack engineer, you’ll focus on building the SUI Product services
- You will take ownership in technical decision-making on a mission-critical team and work closely with our stakeholders to ensure we enable SUI Product Systems to scale its operations
- Design, implement, and maintain services and APIs to manage SUI Product, Clients and Claims handling for Justworks customers
- Scale and improve the performance of mission-critical systems that require a high degree of accuracy
- Take an active role in project planning, including translating product requirements into deliverable pieces and sequencing them in a manner that brings value to the business
- Develop deep subject matter expertise in payroll taxation so that our engineering and operations stakeholders don’t have to
- Work collaboratively with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to bring new products and features to our customers
- Channel empathy for our internal stakeholders to create better user experiences with an eye towards making workflows easier and more efficient
- Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship
- Enhance our testing and monitoring infrastructure
- Perform other related duties as assigned
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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Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$16.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2020
$50m
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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
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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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