Senior Data Engineer, Justworks
$167.5-184.3k
Business operations platform
Open for applications
Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$167.5-184.3k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Customer focus - builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions
- Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism
- Nimble learning - actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
- Results-driven - consistently achieves results, even under difficult circumstances
- Creative thinking - discovering new opportunities and solutions for problems by looking beyond current practices and using innovative thinking
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a Data Engineering role, with a focus on building data pipelines and models
- Expertise in programming languages commonly used in the data engineering community such as Python or Scala, and their respective data processing and analytical packages
- Recognized by your peers as a SQL wizard, you can analyze query plans to optimize queries that use complex joins and window functions
- Strong foundational knowledge in and experience with relational databases, data warehouses, and ETL pipelines
- Drive for perfection will lead you to root out variances preventing reconciliation between systems and continuously strive to improve our data quality
- Strong principles around user privacy, you think deeply about how to develop secure systems that safeguard our customer’s sensitive data
- Comfortable with ambiguity; you enjoy figuring out what needs to be done and setting appropriate deadlines and milestones to advance business objectives
- Thrives in a collaborative environment where the best ideas win and can get behind them to achieve the desired outcome
- The ability to distill simple solutions out of complicated problems and good judgment to select the right tools for the job
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be focused on a ground up effort to build data pipelines for wage and tax data that will enable us to build the next generation of Justworks products and services.
- You will take ownership in technical decision making on a mission critical team and be expected to take initiative identifying projects that will enable us to meet business goals.
- Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and models that power tax computation, withholding, and reporting for Justworks customers
- Build reliable and resilient data pipelines for shared datasets with a focus towards ensuring that data is correct, complete, and within SLAs for downstream consumers
- Work collaboratively with operations and application teams to identify and understand their data needs and build self-service solutions for provisioning and moving data between systems
- Develop deep subject matter expertise in payroll taxation so that our data stakeholders don’t have to
- Assist with design and management of our data infrastructure
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
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
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Leadership
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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