Senior Software Engineer, Benefits

United States Digital Space LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 188,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in New York City is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own large-scale backend systems. You will work with product, design and operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in a regulated space.

The role emphasizes mentoring, collaboration across teams, and hands-on development using Golang, SQL, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes. The base wage range for this position is $188,000 to $242,000 per year, with a hybrid on-site/remote setup in NYC.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of professional hands-on experience.
• Mastery of modern server side languages; Golang is a plus but not required.
• Proficiency with SQL and cloud infrastructure management (preferably AWS).
• Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating with designers and product managers.

Responsibilities

• Independently own large-scoped projects from discovery through launch with a focus on outcomes and customer impact.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to find solutions to customer challenges.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing systems.
• Promote engineering excellence through leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship.
• Add capabilities to high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure.
• Enhance testing, monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure.
• Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure.

Skills

Golang

SQL

AWS

Mentoring

Collaboration

Design collaboration

Tools

Ruby on Rails

JavaScript

MySQL

Kafka

Git

Docker

Terraform

Kubernetes

CircleCI

DataDog

Redis

Elasticsearch

Job description

Who We Are

At the company, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at the company. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

You are self-driven and like to work with others to remove roadblocks. You are curious, and love to explore and learn new technologies. You have demonstrated the ability to build, deploy and maintain large-scale, complex applications. You care more about solutions and impacting the customer experience than using a particular tool or framework.

Your Success ProfileWhat You Will Work On

TheBenefitsorganization builds products and experiences that help businesses provide and manage employee benefits with confidence. Our teams work across Health Benefits, Wealth Benefits, and International Benefits to simplify complex processes, improve access to valuable offerings, and create a seamless experience for employers and their employees.

Engineers in this organization partner closely with Product, Design, Operations, and external providers to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in a highly regulated space. We are looking for engineers who enjoy solving complex problems, collaborating across disciplines, and building products that have a meaningful impact on businesses and the people they support.

• Independently own larged-scoped projects from initial discovery through launch with a focus on outcomes and customer impact

• Collaborate with a cross functional team to find solutions to customer challenges

• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our existing systems

• Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship

• Add capabilities to our high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure

• Enhance our testing, monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure

• Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure

How You Will Do Your Work

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.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• 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.”

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of professional hands-on experience

• Mastery of modern server side languages, Golang is a plus 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

Technologies Used

• Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, DataDog

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $188,000.00 to $242,000.00 per year.

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Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.

For more information about the company’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ the company.

Diversity At the company

the company is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team s