Who We Are

Justworks Labs is focused on exploring new products that complement the Justworks PEO and expand our ability to help all small businesses grow and thrive. We operate in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. We build and adjust direction quickly, all while maintaining the high standards of excellence Justworks customers have come to expect. We work in a collaborative, hybrid office model doing 3 in-office days a week.

Who You Are

You’ve been building server-side applications for a while now and can take a new product from zero to one single handedly. You’re well versed in the pros and cons of modern coding, storage, and caching technologies and frameworks, and know how to architect for growing teams and the eventual separation of responsibilities. You’re very comfortable architecting, monitoring, and managing cloud infrastructures. You’ve lived the tradeoffs of balancing speed of delivery with long-term maintainability and know how to get this right. You work well with a diverse set of stakeholders from across the company. You know what frontend engineers need from a backend API to ensure they’ll have everything they need for a powerful, flexible frontend in the long run. You’ll lead teams to develop services for both internal and public use, while tackling the thorniest bits yourself.

What You Will Work On:

• Gather and distill requirements
• Produce clean, effective, modular code
• Implement highly reliable, well-tested, well-monitored backend services
• Research design patterns and decide solutions to all manner of technical issues
• Code, test, deploy, and operate modern web services
• Help hire and develop our growing team

• Minimum of 5 years experience in server side development
• Mastery of Golang
• Proficiency with SQL
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure management, preferably AWS
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, but not required

Technologies Used

Golang, MySQL, VueJS, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Senior Backend 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:

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.

Adaptability - staying fluid in the face of changing landscapes and new knowledge, as well as staying optimistic when processes change and require rework.

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.”