Senior Software Engineer, Time

Justworks•New York, NY

6d•$167,500 - $205,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Minimum of 6 years of professional hands-on experience
Expertise in backend systems
Strong object-oriented design and coding skills
Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
Experience modeling complex real-world problems with robust data models and systems
Experience supporting other engineers and acting as a “tech lead”
Experience using Agile/Scrum methodology in a fast-paced environment
Experience in a high-growth environment working with deadlines and milestones

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in RoR is not a requirement.

Responsibilities

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