Senior Software Engineer, Global Payroll & Payments

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

Job summary

Justworks, based in New York City, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Workforce Payments to build the core computation layer powering payroll, money movement, and tax calculation. You will ensure accuracy and compliance as you scale tax and money movement capabilities and improve the platform's ledger integrity.

You will lead technical decisions, mentor teammates, and partner with designers and product managers to deliver reliable, high-scale software while keeping sensitive data secure.

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.

Responsibilities

• Independently own large-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

7 years of experience

Golang

SQL

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Golang

Ruby on Rails

Javascript

MySQL

Kafka

AWS

Git

Memcache

Redis

ElasticSearch

Docker

Terraform

Kubernetes

CircleCI

DataDog

Job description

Justworks, based in New York City, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Workforce Payments to build the core computation layer powering payroll, money movement, and tax calculation. You will ensure accuracy and compliance as you scale tax and money movement capabilities and improve the platform's ledger integrity.

You will lead technical decisions, mentor teammates, and partner with designers and product managers to deliver reliable, high-scale software while keeping sensitive data secure.