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Data Engineer, Justworks

Justworks, Inc.
New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 28 Apr 2025
💰 $155,000/yr($115,000/yr$155,000/yr)

About the role

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Data Engineer – Justworks, Inc. – 55 Water Street, Floor 29, New York, NY 10041 

Salary range: $115,000 – $155,000

DUTIES: Contribute to a ground-up effort to build data pipelines for wage and tax data that will enable the company to build the next generation of products and services. Make technical decisions on a mission critical team. Build and maintain data pipelines and models powering tax computation, withholding, and reporting for customers. Build reliable and resilient data pipelines for shared datasets with a focus towards ensuring that data is correct, complete, and within SLAs for downstream consumers. Work collaboratively with operations and application teams to identify and understand data needs and to build self-service solutions for provisioning and moving data between systems. Develop subject matter expertise in payroll taxation so data stakeholders do not have to. Participate in the design and maintenance of the company data infrastructure.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field required. Two years of experience in software engineering or data engineering required. Two years of experience with programming languages commonly used in the data engineering community (i.e., Python and Scala) and their respective data processing and analytical packages required. One year of experience understanding query plans to optimize queries that use complex joins and window functions required. One year of experience with relational databases, data warehouses, and ETL pipelines required. One year of experience continuously implementing solutions and identifying opportunities to improve data quality required. One year of experience handling sensitive customer data (i.e., PII and bank information) required. Six months of SQL experience required. Must be able to work a hybrid work arrangement with Tuesdays and Thursdays required in office.

Must have legal authority to work in the U.S. EEOE.

E-mail resume to: Danielle Gavish and Alexandra Jackson, Justworks, Inc., 55 Water Street, Floor 29, New York, NY 10041. dgavish@justworks.com. ajackson@justworks.com. Please reference DE25 + job title in cover letter or subject line.

Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location.  Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. 

For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks

Diversity At Justworks

Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommoda

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