Senior Backend Software Engineer (International)

• Independently own larged-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
• As a Senior Software Engineer, how 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:
• Good judgment - 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
• Resourcefulness - 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’s working on something new or thinking about how to do something better
• Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking
• Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve

Benefits

• Paid volunteer work
• Paid parental leave
• Work from home opportunities
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc
• Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more
• All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure
• Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching
• Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth- 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
• Proficiency with SQL
• Mastery of modern server side languages, Golang is a plus but not required
• Experience working closely with designers and product managers
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure management, preferably AWS
• Experience supporting and mentoring other engineers and acting as a “force multiplier”
• Minimum of 5 years of professional hands-on experience