Senior Software Engineer, Time & Attendance
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
Justworks is seeking an experienced engineer to join our team. As a successful candidate, you have demonstrated the ability to build, deploy and maintain features of large-scale, distributed applications. You understand the concept of “separation of concerns” and have leveraged design patterns to solve technical challenges. You understand and use automated testing as a productivity multiplier.
The Time and Attendance team is primarily responsible for all aspects of time tracking within the Justworks application. This includes time entry, approvals processes, integrations with relevant third parties, reporting, etc. You will work closely with senior engineers to scope, design, and build new features and functionality in this area. Your initial focus will be integrating our clock in/out application with our main web application, including the timecard product.
We work primarily in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/React, but prior knowledge is not a requirement, and you should have a deep understanding that goes beyond the ability to use these tools.
What You'll Do
- Work collaboratively with other engineers, product managers, and designers
- Scope work and coordinate efforts with other engineers on the team
- Provide guidance and support growth in other engineers on the team and across other teams
- Build features and functionality that our customers use directly, typically in an iterative fashion taking into account user feedback
- Implement services and integrations with internal and external clients/engineering teams
- Design systems with privacy, security, and scalability as top concerns
- Enhance our testing, monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of professional hands-on experience
- Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Strong object-oriented design and coding skills
- Experience supporting other engineers and acting as a “tech lead”
- Experience working with complicated systems at scale
- Experience building APIs and/or webhooks
Technologies We Use
- Ruby on Rails, Javascript/React, Redux, MySQL, AWS, Git
- ElasticSearch, Docker, InfluxDB, Redshift, Jenkins, Nagios
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 status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
Our DEI Commitment