Senior Software Engineer - Scale High-Volume Systems

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

Job summary

Justworks, based in New York City, offers a welcoming, casual environment with strong benefits and learning opportunities from startup leaders. We are building HR software that helps businesses focus on their core work and empower teams to move fast while staying compliant.

As a Senior Software Engineer in our NYC office, you will own large-scale projects, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and improve performance, reliability, and security across our platform.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of professional hands-on experience.
• Mastery of modern server side languages; Golang is a plus.
• Proficiency with SQL and cloud infrastructure management, preferably AWS.
• Experience mentoring other engineers and working with designers and product managers.

Responsibilities

• 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

Golang

SQL

AWS / Cloud

Mentoring engineers

Collaboration

Tools

Ruby on Rails

JavaScript

MySQL

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CircleCI

DataDog

Redis

Memcached

ElasticSearch

Git

AWS

Job description

Justworks, based in New York City, offers a welcoming, casual environment with strong benefits and learning opportunities from startup leaders. We are building HR software that helps businesses focus on their core work and empower teams to move fast while staying compliant.

As a Senior Software Engineer in our NYC office, you will own large-scale projects, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and improve performance, reliability, and security across our platform.