Senior Front End Software Engineer

Justworks; New York (NY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Volunteer work opportunities

Parental leave

Work from home opportunities

Health insurance (medical, dental, and

Job summary

Justworks is seeking a Frontend Engineer to join our Frontend Engineering team. You will work on customer-facing applications, delivering performant and secure frontend solutions using JavaScript/TypeScript, with experience in React or Vue.

You will gather requirements, implement high-fidelity designs, and collaborate to create on-brand user experiences. The role emphasizes strong problem solving, teamwork, and ongoing learning within a growing team.

Qualifications

• Proficient in modern frontend tech and architecture.
• Experience delivering customer-facing web apps.
• Strong eye for design and user experience.
• Familiarity with performance and security considerations in frontend systems.

Responsibilities

• Deliver frontend web apps for Justworks products, internal and public.
• Gather requirements and collaborate with team lead on user experiences.
• Implement designs with high fidelity and on-brand aesthetics.
• Research patterns and propose UI/UX solutions; code, test, and deploy.
• Contribute to team growth and development, upholding quality standards.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Frontend frameworks

HTML/CSS

Server-side knowledge

Performance & security

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Testing

Job description

• As a Software Engineer, you will be a part of our Frontend Engineering team, focusing on delivering products and capabilities that power Justworks products. You will leverage your experience working with customer-facing applications and design with performance and security in mind. You will be working primarily in JavaScript/TypeScript and prior experience is preferred
• You'll be a part of a team developing frontend web apps for both internal and public use
• Gather requirements
• Partner with your team lead to produce clean, effective, on-brand user experiences
• Implement designs with a high level of fidelity
• Research design patterns and propose technical solutions to common web UI/UX problems
• Coding, testing, and deploying modern web apps
• Help hire and develop our growing team
• As a Frontend 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:
• 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

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've been building web applications for a while now and are comfortable ramping up on an existing product quicklyYou’ve mastered at least one frontend framework, and know how to build highly reliable, modular systems that many people can collaborate on at the same time without stepping on each other's toesYou have a strong sense for good design, and won't stop until the user experience is just rightMastery of JS/HTML/CSS and at least one framework such as React, Vue, etcWorking knowledge in at least one server side language, such as Ruby, Python, Golang, etcMinimum of 7+ year experience in Frontend development