# Senior Software Engineer, Workforce Payments

**Company:** [Justworks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/justworks)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $168k – $235k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, SQL, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
**Posted:** 2026-06-03

> Senior Software Engineer building the core computation layer for payroll, money movement, and tax products. Own large projects, mentor engineers, and improve reliability of high-volume financial systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Independently own large-scoped projects from initial discovery through launch with a focus on outcomes and customer impact
- Collaborate with a cross functional team to find solutions to customer challenges
- Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our existing systems
- 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

## Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of professional hands-on experience
- Mastery of modern server side languages (Golang is a plus but not required)
- 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

## Technologies Used
Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, DataDog

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