Justworks
Senior Software Engineer, Workforce Payments
$188K–$242K
New York, New York · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum of 7 years of professional hands-on experience.
About the job
Build and improve the core systems that calculate payroll, move money, and handle tax computations accurately and reliably.
What you'll do
- Own large projects from discovery through launch, focusing on outcomes and customer impact.
- Improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and high-volume processing capabilities.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and strengthen testing, monitoring, deployment, and data security.
What they ask for
- At least 7 years of professional hands-on experience.
- Mastery of modern server-side languages.
- Proficiency with SQL.
- Experience supporting and mentoring engineers and working closely with designers and product managers.
Nice to have
- Golang is a plus but not required.
- Cloud infrastructure management, preferably AWS.
Pay
$188,000.00 to $242,000.00 per year (USD, base salary)
Tools
Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
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