Senior Software Engineer, International Payroll

Justworks•New York, NY

1d•$188,000 - $242,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer for Workforce Payments, you will work with the team that builds the core computation layer powering Justworks’ payroll, money movement, and tax calculation products, ensuring our customers can confidently and accurately pay their workforce. This team is mission-critical, operating at the heart of our platform's financial accuracy and compliance. You will lead technical decision-making and be expected to take initiative in identifying projects that will enable us to meet key business goals, such as scaling our tax and money movement capabilities, improving the integrity of our financial ledger, and developing robust platform interfaces for payroll data. We’re looking for people who have a passion for solving real-world, complex financial problems and will thrive building a growing team focused on reliability and precision.

Requirements

Minimum of 7 years of professional hands-on experience
Mastery of modern server side languages, Golang is a plus but not required
Proficiency with SQL
Proficiency with cloud infrastructure management, preferably AWS
Experience supporting and mentoring other engineers and acting as a “force multiplier”
Experience working closely with designers and product managers

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