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.

Who You Are 

Our Payroll and Tax Technology team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help model the complex world of taxation in fast, accurate, and scalable software. 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 tax 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 of technical decision-making on a mission-critical team and work closely with our stakeholders to ensure that we enable our Payroll and Tax team to scale its operations. We’re looking for people who have a passion for solving real-world problems and strong engineering fundamentals to solve them.

About The Team

The Payroll & Tax Calculations team works closely with key organizational stakeholders and partner technologists to design, build, and maintain core payroll and tax systems and related APIs. Our work is crucial to the overall future success of Justworks’ multi-product platform by scaling our payroll processes and servicing internal stakeholders.

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 the 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 toward making workflows more manageable 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.