The Role

Who You Are

Are you passionate about design and development? Do you have experience building, deploying, and maintaining large-scale applications and consistent, user-friendly experiences? Are you eager to learn and passionate about improvement across multiple dimensions - in code, practices, processes, people, and customers? Are you ready to take your skills to the next level and join a team of innovative self-starters in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment?

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Platform Services cluster, you will help evolve our software architecture to support more parallelized development against multiple products without compromising the quality that has defined success for Justworks so far. You will leverage your experience working on user interfaces to incorporate industry best practices around accessibility, responsiveness and performance into your work and use automated tools around testing and delivery as a productivity multiplier. You will be responsible for separating data and functionality as necessary and demonstrating a deep understanding of service-oriented architecture. You will work closely with multiple domain teams to scope, design, and build new features and common functionality. You will be working primarily in JavaScript, Typescript, GraphQL and React, but prior knowledge is not a requirement.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Create tools that promote modernized UI development
• Implement product-oriented platform services that help modularize and enable our domain teams
• Collaborate with various teams to find solutions to customer challenges, both internal and external
• Take ownership of designing and developing functionality that is exposed via web and mobile applications
• 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
• Perform other related duties as assigned

How You Will Do Your Work

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:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional hands-on experience
• Experience implementing complex and reusable UI with animation, responsiveness and accessibility
• Experience with at least 2 modern front end frameworks, libraries, and tooling (e.g., React, Vue, etc.)
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and related web technologies
• Experience working closely with designers
• Experience building new features from scratch, using clean, organized, and scalable code
• Strong object-oriented design, API design, data modeling, and coding skills
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience working using Agile/Scrum methodology in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in a high-growth environment working with deadlines and milestones

Technologies Used

• Javascript/Typescript + React, Redux, React Native, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, MySQL/PostgreSQL, CircleCI, DataDog, AWS, Git, Apollo, Redis, Docker, Redshift, Jenkins, Sidekiq, Kafka

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $167,500.00 to $205,000.00 per year.