Who You Are

You are self-driven and like to work with others to remove roadblocks. You are curious, and love to explore and learn new technologies. You have demonstrated the ability to build, deploy and maintain large-scale, complex applications. You have worked with customer-facing applications and know how to separate data and functionality as necessary. You design with security and performance in mind. You understand and use automated testing as a productivity multiplier. 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be leveraging your experience working on a public facing enterprise portal. 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, UX designers, and other engineers to scope, design, and build new features and functionality. You will be working primarily in JavaScript/React, but prior knowledge is not a requirement.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

The Growth team’s mission is to identify areas of opportunity within other business units at Justworks, and deliver technology that unlocks value-adds for those teams. Joining our team as a Senior Software Engineer, you will apply your experience with technology to creatively push the boundaries of what’s possible for our internal teams, elevating Justworks’ technological foundation.

• Scope, prioritize, and execute against the website roadmap in collaboration with internal and external technical teams
• Independently own larged-scoped projects from initial discovery through QA and launch 
• Actively participate in managing the website stack, identifying and resolving issues to help maintain a performant website and larger strategic decisions around website architecture
• Collaborate with a cross functional team to find solutions to customer challenges
• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our existing systems
• Take ownership of designing and developing functionalities that are exposed via web
• Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship
• Add capabilities to our high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure
• Enhance our testing, monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure
• Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure
• Work within and expand upon existing agile and sprint working methods
• 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.

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 to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional hands-on experience
• Experience implementing complex and reusable UI with animation, responsiveness and accessibility 
• Experience with front end frameworks, libraries, and tooling
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, HTML5/DOM, CSS3, and related web technologies
• Experience working with design systems and component-based frontend
• Experience with CMS systems
• Experience supporting other engineers and acting as a “tech lead”
• Experience working closely with designers and product managers
• Strong object-oriented design and coding skills
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience building new feature from scratch, using clean, organized, and scalable code
• Experience working with complicated systems at scale
• Experience working using Agile/Scrum methodology in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in a high-growth environment working with deadlines and milestones

Technologies Used

• Gatsby React, Javascript/Typescript, Git, Github, Github Actions, CircleCI, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Pages, Algolia, Contentful, Salesforce, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Customer IO, VWO, Datadog, Storybook, Heap

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