Senior Software Engineer, Benefits

<div class="content-intro"><h1><strong>Who We Are</strong></h1> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.justworks.com/careers#values"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our Values</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.</span></p></div><h1><strong>Who You Are</strong></h1> <p>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 care more about solutions and impacting the customer experience than using a particular tool or framework.</p> <h1><strong>Your Success Profile</strong></h1> <h2><strong>What You Will Work On</strong></h2> <p>The&nbsp;<strong>Benefits</strong>&nbsp;organization builds products and experiences that help businesses provide and manage employee benefits with confidence. Our teams work across Health Benefits, Wealth Benefits, and International Benefits to simplify complex processes, improve access to valuable offerings, and create a seamless experience for employers and their employees.</p> <p>Engineers in this organization partner closely with Product, Design, Operations, and external providers to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in a highly regulated space. We are looking for engineers who enjoy solving complex problems, collaborating across disciplines, and building products that have a meaningful impact on businesses and the people they support.</p> <ul> <li>Independently own larged-scoped projects from initial discovery through launch with a focus on outcomes and customer impact</li> <li>Collaborate with a cross functional team to find solutions to customer challenges</li> <li>Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our existing systems</li> <li>Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship</li> <li>Add capabilities to our high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure</li> <li>Enhance our testing, monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure</li> <li>Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure</li> </ul> <h2><strong>How You Will Do Your Work</strong></h2> <p>As a Senior Software Engineer, <em>how</em> 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:</p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Good judgment</strong> - 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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Resourcefulness</strong> - 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