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 team is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help model the complex world of payroll and taxation in software that is fast, accurate, and scalable. 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 compliance so that our customers can focus on what they do best.

As Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be focused on ensuring we evolve our architecture for the computation layer that powers Justworks’ payroll and taxation products. You will lead technical decision making on a mission critical team and be expected to take initiative in identifying projects that will enable us to meet business goals. We’re looking for people that have a passion for solving real-world problems and will thrive building a growing team.

What You Will Work On 

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems that power tax computation, withholding, and reporting for Justworks customers
• Build reliable and resilient integrations with external systems for reporting taxes to federal/state/local tax agencies
• Scope and lead large technical projects with impact across mission critical teams in Payments and Tax
• 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 towards making workflows easier and more efficient
• Build robust abstractions that are easy for other engineers to use and shield the appropriate level of complexity
• Mentor engineers to help them grow their technical skills by fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
• Serve as a role model for and work towards improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Help drive sound technical decision-making and lead technical conversations with other teams across Justworks
• Perform other related duties as assigned. 

How You Will Do Your Work  

As a Staff 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 t