Associate Software Engineer, Expenses

At Justworks youll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment great benefits wellness program offerings company retreats and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

Were helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. Were data-driven and never stop iterating. If youd like to work in a supportive entrepreneurial environment are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it wed love to hear from you.

Were united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you youll fit right in.

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.

As a part of the Workforce Management team you will drive our expansion into exciting new verticals enriching our platform to attract and delight new customer segments. Your mission will be to architect and deliver foundational solutions in the Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) Contractor and Expenses domains. Our specialized product pods focus on building lean high-impact features for customers who want a streamlined experience without the overhead of a bloated platform.

Youll join the expenses pod in Toronto and help build the platform that handles expense submissions approvals and reimbursements for Justworks customers. Working alongside 3-4 senior engineers youll contribute to our migration from Ruby to Go build AI-powered features and learn how to ship production code with confidence. We value curiosity fast iteration and engineers who talk to customers.

As an Associate Software Engineer how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an 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 whats in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have whether its 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 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.

In addition all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. Youre an active listener treat people respectfully and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. Youre willing to share information understand other perspectives and consider new possibilities. Youre curious ask open questions and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. Youre committed earnest and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put do what you say and say what youll do. Youre honest and forthright have a strong moral compass and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: Everything should be made as simple as possible but no simpler.

• Minimum of 1 year of professional hands-on experience.
• Experience with a modern server side language and willingness to learn Golang. Our legacy is Ruby/Rails.
• REST APIs; understanding how to build and consume HTTP APIs.
• Proficiency in SQL. Comfort with writing queries and understands relational data models.
• Product-minded approach. Comfortable working directly with product partners navigating ambiguity understanding customer problems and making tradeoffs that balance technical quality with shipping value.
• Curiosity about AI tooling. We use AI daily for development and are shipping AI-powered features; you dont need to be an expert but you should be eager to experiment.

• Golang Ruby on Rails Javascript MySQL Kafka AWS Git Memcache Redis ElasticSearch Docker Terraform Kubernetes CircleCI DataDog

The base wage range for this position based in our Toronto office is targeted at $109000 - $136000 CAD per year.

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Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate including and not limited to skill set level of relevant experience and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.

For more information about Justworks Total Reward Philosophy including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.

Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity culture and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work our people and our product drives creativity and innovation entrepreneurial leadership and integrity competitiveness and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger our workplace more dynamic and our product accessible to all of our customers.

Were proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital or familial status disability pregnancy gender identity or expression veteran status genetic information or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal state and local laws. If youre in need of a reasonable accommodation please reach out to us at . Your comfort and success matter to us and were here to ensure an inclusive experience.

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