Developer Experience Engineer

About the Job

At Justworks, you’ll 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.

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

We're 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.

Justworks is seeking an experienced engineer to join our Developer Experience Engineering team, focused on providing tools, services, workflows, and systems to empower Justworks product engineering teams to deliver high-quality, high-performing code. As a successful candidate, you are passionate about developer workflows, and tooling to complement a growing codebase as we work toward a multi-language service-oriented architecture. We work primarily in Ruby, JavaScript, and Python, but prior knowledge is not a requirement, and you should have a deep understanding that goes beyond the ability to use these tools.

Job Responsibilities

What You Will Work On:

• Work collaboratively with engineers across the organization to better understand the problems they face and what solutions we can provide.
• Improve our testing, monitoring, and continuous deployment infrastructure.
• Develop tools and services for Engineering In order to facilitate the SDLC process.
• Identify and improve existing processes through automation to speedup development.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

How You Will Do Your Work:

As a Developer Experience Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately results 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.

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. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re 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. You’re 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 you'll do. You’re 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.”

Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 3 years of professional software engineering experience as a full-stack engineer
• Experience programming in languages such as Ruby or Python is a plus
• Comfortable with Linux, Git, CICD, tests, containers, and monitoring tools
• Strong systems architecture and coding/scripting skills
• Experience working with complicated systems at scale
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms

Technologies Used:

• Ruby on Rails, Javascript/React, Redux, Python, Bash, MySQL, AWS, Git
• ElasticSearch, Docker, InfluxDB, Redshift, CircleCI, DataDog