Senior Software Engineer - Build Scalable Systems & Lead Tech

Justworks; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 188,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

Justworks in New York City is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own large-scale projects from discovery through launch, focusing on outcomes and customer impact.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, improve performance, reliability, and scalability, and mentor engineers while maintaining secure data handling in a high-volume processing environment. Base compensation for this NYC role ranges from $188,000 to $242,000 per year, with a comprehensive Total Rewards program.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional hands-on software engineering experience.
• Mastery of modern server side languages; Go (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.
• Experience building scalable, high-volume systems.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Go / Golang

Ruby on Rails

JavaScript

SQL

AWS

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Kubernetes

CircleCI

DataDog

Redis

Memcached

ElasticSearch

Git

Kafka

Job description

Justworks in New York City is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own large-scale projects from discovery through launch, focusing on outcomes and customer impact.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, improve performance, reliability, and scalability, and mentor engineers while maintaining secure data handling in a high-volume processing environment. Base compensation for this NYC role ranges from $188,000 to $242,000 per year, with a comprehensive Total Rewards program.