Software Engineer, Backend

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

Benefits

• Wellness program offerings
• Company retreats
• Ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community
• Hybrid work arrangement
• Glassdoor
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• Justworks is a cloud-based HR and payroll platform that helps small and mid-sized companies manage payroll, benefits, compliance, and HR.
• New York, New York, USA
• https://www.justworks.com
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• Engineering and Development
• Product Management
• Management and Executive
• Accounting and Finance
• Marketing
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• 2025
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• 2020

Qualifications

• 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
• Minimum 3 years of professional development experience
• Proficiency in server-side languages like Python, Java, Node.js, or Ruby (Go experience is a plus)
• Solid SQL skills and understanding of database fundamentals
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS (basic deployment and monitoring)
• Interest in helping junior developers and contributing to team knowledge sharing
• Experience collaborating with designers and product managers on feature development

Required skills

• AWS, Go, Java, Large-Scale Application Development, Node.js, Python, Ruby, SQL

Experience

• 3+ years