What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer, Accountant Experience position at Justworks?
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.
If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.
About Our Team
The Accountant Experiences team is focused on empowering accountants to seamlessly service their clients on Justworks. Accountants play a vital role in our ecosystem, and our team’s success is defined by their enthusiasm for Justworks.
Our team builds and supports all accountant-related functionality across Justworks’ product offerings, including our accountant-specific product, the Advisor Dashboard. Since we touch all of Justworks’ products, we need to deliver functionality that is performant, scalable, reusable and adaptable. If we are doing our job well, accountants will encourage all of their clients to sign up for our services.
About Our Ideal Candidate
As a backend engineer, you’ll focus on building services that provide value to accountants across all of Justworks’ products. Accountants are Justworks superusers, and you will be responsible for ensuring that their experience is seamless, while delivering new features quickly. You will regularly engage with teams from across the business, technical and non-technical, to make sure that the solutions you design achieve the business’ growth goals and are in line with the company’s overall technical strategy.
As a senior member of the team, engineers will look to you for guidance and mentorship. Engineers working with you should not only learn from your technical experience, but you should also be guiding them towards the most impactful work on initiatives that you lead.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
- Focus on ensuring that our the systems we build are reliable and maintainable
- Take an active role in project planning, including translating product requirements into deliverable pieces and prioritizing them in a manner that brings value to the business
- Work collaboratively with engineers, product managers and other stakeholders to bring new products and features to accounts on Justworks
- Channel empathy for our internal stakeholders to create better user experiences with an eye towards making workflows easier 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 :
In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for :
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Technologies Used
The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $167, to $205, per year.
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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 .
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 accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at . Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.
Salary : $167 - $205
