Senior Software Engineer, Payroll & Payments Platform

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

Job summary

Justworks, Inc. in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Workforce Payments team, building the core computation layer powering payroll, money movement, and tax calculation. You will influence architectural decisions and drive reliability and performance at scale.

You will collaborate with product managers and designers to ship robust features, mentor engineers, and help maintain a secure, compliant financial platform.

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 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

Golang

SQL

AWS

Job description

Justworks, Inc. in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Workforce Payments team, building the core computation layer powering payroll, money movement, and tax calculation. You will influence architectural decisions and drive reliability and performance at scale.

You will collaborate with product managers and designers to ship robust features, mentor engineers, and help maintain a secure, compliant financial platform.