# Senior Software Engineer, International Payroll

**Company:** [Justworks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/justworks)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $188k – $242k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Go, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, SQL, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcached, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI
**Posted:** 2026-08-17

> Leads development of reliable, secure backend infrastructure for payroll computation, money movement, tax calculations, and financial data. The role requires 7+ years of hands-on experience, strong server-side programming and SQL skills, cloud infrastructure expertise, and technical mentorship.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Independently own large-scoped projects from discovery through launch, focusing on outcomes and customer impact.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve customer challenges.
- Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing systems.
- Provide technical leadership, knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and engineering evangelism.
- Add capabilities to high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure.
- Enhance testing, monitoring, and continuous deployment infrastructure.
- Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure.
- Make technical decisions for payroll, money movement, tax calculation, financial ledger, and payroll data platform capabilities.

## Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years of professional hands-on experience.
- Mastery of modern server-side programming languages; Golang is a plus.
- Proficiency with SQL.
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure management, preferably AWS.
- Experience supporting and mentoring other engineers and acting as a force multiplier.
- Experience working closely with designers and product managers.
- Strong judgment, resourcefulness, teamwork, communication, influence, and leadership.

## Technologies
- Golang
- Ruby on Rails
- JavaScript
- MySQL
- Kafka
- AWS
- Git
- Memcached
- Redis
- Elasticsearch
- Docker
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- CircleCI
- Datadog

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base wage range: **$188,000.00–$242,000.00 per year** for the New York City office.
- Total compensation may vary based on skills, relevant experience, and work location.
- Benefits and perks are available through Justworks’ Total Rewards program.

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