About Our Team
The Accountant Experiences team is focused on empowering accountants to seamlessly service their clients on Justworks. Accountants play a vital role in our ecosystem, and our team’s success is defined by their enthusiasm for Justworks.
Our team builds and supports all accountant-related functionality across Justworks’ product offerings, including our accountant-specific product, the Advisor Dashboard. Since we touch all of Justworks’ products, we need to deliver functionality that is performant, scalable, reusable and adaptable. If we are doing our job well, accountants will encourage all of their clients to sign up for our services.
About Our Ideal Candidate
As a backend engineer, you’ll focus on building services that provide value to accountants across all of Justworks’ products. Accountants are Justworks superusers, and you will be responsible for ensuring that their experience is seamless, while delivering new features quickly. You will regularly engage with teams from across the business, technical and non-technical, to make sure that the solutions you design achieve the business’ growth goals and are in line with the company’s overall technical strategy.
As a senior member of the team, engineers will look to you for guidance and mentorship. Engineers working with you should not only learn from your technical experience, but you should also be guiding them towards the most impactful work on initiatives that you lead.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
- Focus on ensuring that our the systems we build are reliable and maintainable
- Take an active role in project planning, including translating product requirements into deliverable pieces and prioritizing them in a manner that brings value to the business
- Work collaboratively with engineers, product managers and other stakeholders to bring new products and features to accounts on Justworks
- Channel empathy for our internal stakeholders to create better user experiences with an eye towards making workflows easier and more efficient
- Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship
- Enhance our testing and monitoring infrastructure
- 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
- 5+ years real-world experience working as a software engineer on production code, with a focus in backend and API development
- Thrives in a collaborative environment that fosters the exchange of diverse ideas and values the collective effort to achieve common outcomes
- Advanced knowledge of a server-side language such as Go, Ruby, Python, or Node
- The ability to distill simple solutions and architectures out of complicated problems and good judgment to select the right tools for the job
- Fluency in at least one SQL dialect and experience in relational database schema design
- Understanding of how to build resilient and maintainable systems in complicated business domains at scale
- Comfortable proactively identifying tasks and strategically establishing deadlines and milestones to drive the achievement of business objectives
Technologies Used
- Go / Ruby / Ruby on Rails
- MySQL / PostgreSQL
- Kafka
- Kubernetes / Helm
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.
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