Associate Software Engineer, Frontend

Location: New York

Who We Are 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 se 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, you’ll fit right in.

Department Engineering Who  You Are You have experience building web applications, are comfortable ramping up on an existing product quickly, and seek opportunities to continue to grow.  You’ve mastered at least one frontend framework, and know how to build highly reliable, modular systems that many people can collaborate on at the same time without stepping on each other’s toes.  You have a strong sense for good design, and won’t stop until the user experience is just right.

As an Associate Software Engineer, you will be a part of our Frontend Engineering team, focusing on delivering products and capabilities that power Justworks products. You will leverage your experience working with customer-facing applications and design with performance and security in mind. You will be working primarily in JavaScript/Type Script and prior experience is preferred.

Your Success Profile What You Will Work OnYou’ll be a part of a team developing frontend web apps for both internal and public use.

Gather requirements

Partner with your team lead to produce clean, effective, on-brand user experiences

Implement designs with a high level of fidelity Research design patterns and propose technical solutions to common web UI/UX problems

Coding, testing, and deploying modern web apps

How You Will Do Your Work As a Frontend 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:

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  addition, all Just workers 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…