Senior Software Engineer, PEO Payroll

Who You Are

Our Payroll & Tax Technology team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help model the complex world of payroll and payroll taxation in software that is fast, accurate, and scalable. Payroll is an essential function of any business, and the demands of accurately calculating and reporting taxes are a lot to take on. We simplify payroll compliance so that our customers can focus on what they do best.

As a backend engineer, you’ll focus on building the payroll and payroll taxation services that power Justworks’ payroll and taxation products. You will take ownership in technical decision-making on a mission-critical team and work closely with our stakeholders to ensure that we are enabling the Payments and Tax Unit to scale its operations. We’re looking for people that have a passion for solving real-world problems and strong engineering fundamentals to solve them.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Design, implement and maintain services and APIs that power tax and withholding calculations as well as payroll for Justworks customers
• Scale and improve performance of mission-critical systems that require a high degree of accuracy
• Take an active role in project planning, including translating product requirements into deliverable pieces and sequencing them in a manner that brings value to the business
• Develop deep subject matter expertise in payroll taxation so that our engineering and operations stakeholders don’t have to
• Work collaboratively with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to bring new products and features to our customers
• 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

• Minimum of 5 years real-world experience working as a software engineer on production code, with a focus in backend and API development
• Advanced knowledge of a server-side language such as Ruby, Python, Go, or Node
• 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
• Thrives in a collaborative environment that fosters the exchange of diverse ideas and values the collective effort to achieve common outcomes
• The ability to distill simple solutions and architectures out of complicated problems and good judgment to select the right tools for the job

Technologies Used

• Ruby / Ruby on Rails / Sorbet / Go
• Javascript / ReactJS
• Sidekiq
• MySQL / PostgreSQL 
• Redis
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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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