Who You Are

Are you passionate about system design and development? Do you have experience building, deploying, and maintaining large-scale, distributed applications? 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, you will be leveraging your experience working within a service-oriented architecture. You will be responsible for separating data and functionality as necessary, and will demonstrate an understanding and use of automated testing as a productivity multiplier. You are eager to learn and passionate about improvement. You want to understand how systems work, and you think about how to make them work even better. You will work closely with product managers, designers and other engineers to scope, design, and build new features and functionality. You will be working primarily on backend systems. We’re currently using Ruby on Rails as our main language, but prior experience in RoR is not a requirement.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

As a member of the Employer Risk team, you will be focusing on building technology that powers Justworks’ workers’ compensation insurance program. This program provides thousands of small businesses with mission-critical insurance coverage while contributing significantly to Justworks’ bottom line. As Justworks continues to grow and expand the types of businesses we serve, we are rethinking our technology platform to support more dynamic and streamlined business execution, while innovating new ways to serve our customers. As a Senior Software Engineer joining the team, here’s what that will look like for you:

• Collaborate with a cross functional team to design a next-generation platform to unlock new business capabilities
• Take ownership of designing and implementing APIs, systems integrations and backend services
• Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship
• Instate best-practices observability and monitoring as “first principles” of all our services
• 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 6 years of professional hands-on experience
• Expertise in backend systems
• Strong object-oriented design and coding skills
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience building new feature from scratch, using clean, organized, and scalable code
• Experience supporting other engineers and acting as a “tech lead”
• Experience working with complicated systems at scale
• Experience working using Agile/Scrum methodology in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in a high-growth environment working with deadlines and milestones

Technologies Used

• Languages: Ruby on Rails, Javascript
• Messaging / APIs: Kafka, GraphQL, Apollo, Redis

Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, CircleCI, DataDog, AWS

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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