Senior Software Engineer (Workforce Payments)

Join Justworks, a company dedicated to helping businesses thrive by solving HR issues and enabling them to focus on running their operations. As a Senior Software Engineer for Workforce Payments, you will play a critical role in building the core computation layer that powers Justworks' payroll, money movement, and tax calculation products. You will lead technical decision-making, own large-scoped projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and promote engineering excellence. Enjoy a supportive and entrepreneurial environment with great benefits and opportunities for growth.

• Lead technical decision-making and take initiative in identifying projects that will enable the team to meet key business goals.
• Independently own large-scoped projects from initial discovery through launch, focusing on outcomes and customer impact.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to find solutions to customer challenges and improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing systems.
• You are self-driven and like to work with others to remove roadblocks. You are curious, and love to explore and learn new technologies
• You have demonstrated the ability to build, deploy and maintain large-scale, complex applications
• You care more about solutions and impacting the customer experience than using a particular tool or framework
• We’re looking for people who have a passion for solving real-world, complex financial problems and will thrive building a growing team focused on reliability and precision
• Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome
• Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve
• Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking
• Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better
• As a Senior Software Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:
• Experience supporting and mentoring other engineers and acting as a “force multiplier”
• Mastery of modern server side languages, Golang is a plus but not required
• Minimum of 5 years of professional hands-on experience
• Experience working closely with designers and product managers
• Proficiency with SQL
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure management, preferably AWS