# Software Engineer
**Company:** [Justworks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/justworks)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Salary:** $115K-$160K
**Experience:** 1+ years
**Skills:** Python, Java, Node.js, Ruby, Go, SQL, MySQL, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, Ruby on Rails
**Posted:** 2026-04-16
> Software Engineer owns large-scoped projects end-to-end, improves system performance and scalability, and enhances infrastructure while collaborating cross-functionally. Requires 1+ years experience, server-side proficiency (Python/Java/Node/Ruby), SQL, and AWS.
## Job Description
## What You Will Work On
- 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

## Qualifications
- Minimum 1 year of professional development experience
- Proficiency in server-side languages like **Python**, **Java**, **Node.js**, or **Ruby** (**Go** experience is a plus)
- Solid **SQL** skills and understanding of database fundamentals
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably **AWS** (basic deployment and monitoring)
- Interest in helping junior developers and contributing to team knowledge sharing
- Experience collaborating with designers and product managers on feature development

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

## Compensation
Base wage range: **$115,000 - $160,000** per year (New York City Office).
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