Senior Software Engineer, Workforce Payments - Scale & Impact

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

Job summary

Justworks, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Workforce Payments in New York City.

You will work on the core computation layer powering payroll, money movement, and tax calculations, ensuring accurate payment processing for customers. The role emphasizes technical decision-making, reliability, and scale, with leadership responsibilities to drive projects end-to-end and mentor a growing team of engineers.

Qualifications

• 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

Golang

SQL

AWS

Mentorship

PM collaboration

Backend development

Job description

Justworks, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Workforce Payments in New York City.

You will work on the core computation layer powering payroll, money movement, and tax calculations, ensuring accurate payment processing for customers. The role emphasizes technical decision-making, reliability, and scale, with leadership responsibilities to drive projects end-to-end and mentor a growing team of engineers.