Justworks
Software Engineer, Solutions Engineering
New York, New York · Mid
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$6,717 more — $137,717 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $137,717 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- 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're data-driven and never stop iterating.
Responsibilities
- Build, test, deploy, and operate developer-facing experiences such as developer portal, documentation tooling, SDK improvements, quickstarts, code samples, and integration templates.
- Contribute to partner integration work by researching APIs, implementing well-scoped components, validating integration flows, and preparing clear technical documentation and test plans.
- Pair with senior engineers in partner working sessions; progressively own bounded technical discussions and follow-up deliverables.
- Participate in design reviews, incident and debugging work, and team retrospectives; use what you learn to improve the developer journey.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Partnerships and Sales, and Support with curiosity, reliability, and clear communication.
Requirements
- You are a thoughtful software engineer who wants to make other developers successful.
- Skills and knowledge: You continuously strengthen your software-engineering, API, testing, and developer-experience craft.
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent experience building and shipping production-quality software.
- Experience building, debugging, or consuming APIs in a professional, academic, open-source, or substantial personal-project setting.
- Curiosity about developer tools, integrations, and the users of the software you build.
Nice to have
- Experience with a frontend framework, backend service, API client or SDK, developer documentation, or sample application.
- Familiarity with OAuth/OIDC, OpenAPI, webhooks, cloud infrastructure, containers, or observability tools.
- Experience in customer-facing, developer-facing, or cross-functional product work.
- Technologies and Experience
- Our work includes TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Ruby, AWS, API specifications, OAuth/OIDC, automated testing, and observability tooling.
- We do not expect expertise in every technology
- Diversity At 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.
Skills
- Experience with one or more modern programming languages such as TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Ruby, or Python.
- Familiarity with HTTP APIs and the fundamentals of web applications, including authentication, structured data, error handling, and testing.
- A commitment to clear written communication, documentation, and collaborative software development.
Compensation
- The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $131,000 - $169,000 per year.
Company info
- 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.
- Our Values
- 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 solve HR issues.
- 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.
- If this sounds like you, you'll fit right in.
Visa & Work Authorization
- 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, vetera
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