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Software Engineer, Backend

Justworks · New York, NY · posted 20 days ago

In short: Software Engineer, Backend at Justworks in New York, NY, posted 20 days ago.

By AtiveSite · Published 07/11/2026 · Updated 09/11/2026 · Every figure is linked to its source below.

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The job

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EmployerJustworks
LocationNew York, New York
FieldTechnology › Software engineering
Levelnot stated
Source categoryEngineering
Posted2026-10-20 (20 days ago)
Work arrangementOn-site at the location listed
PayNot published in the source listing

Job description

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 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, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

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.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

How You Will Do Your Work

As a 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.

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

Qualifications

Technologies Used

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $131,000-  $169,000 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. 

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. 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.

We’re 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 you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.

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Estimate for a wage earner: 2026 federal brackets and standard deduction (IRS), Social Security 6.2% up to $184,500, Medicare 1.45% (+0.9% above $200,000 single / $250,000 married), and a state rate you set; set your own state tax rate. It ignores credits, pre-tax deductions, local taxes and benefits. Sources: IRS: tax year 2026 inflation adjustments · SSA wage base per Federal Register notice 2025-19763.

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The city

The job is in New York, NY. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How New York compares. Among the 120 largest places in New York, New York is #1 by population, #117 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #115 for long commutes (#1 = fewest), #31 for remote work (#1 = most). Its county, Kings County, is #38 of 62 counties for average pay ($59,980).

The place in numbers

New York has 8,483,844 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 42.7% of the population of New York. It covers 300 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 28,236 people per square mile. The median age is 38.2, 4% younger than the state median (38.2 against 39.8).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,821 a month (rent plus utilities), 12% above the state median ($1,821 against $1,621). Over a year that is 27.2% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $777,600, which is 9.7 times the median household income ($80,483); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 32.8% of households own their home, 40% below the state average (32.8% against 54.4%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metropolitan area has 9,492,000 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $61,430 a year, 20% above the national median ($61,430 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (1,109,360 jobs, median $55,080); healthcare support (843,730 jobs, median $40,100); sales and related (751,110 jobs, median $47,540). The area is most specialised in healthcare support (1.8 times) and legal (1.7 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($171,990) and legal ($150,990). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Kings County was 5.3%. 63.1% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Kings County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 21.6% drive alone, 44.0% use public transit, 9.2% walk, 16.9% work from home. 41.2% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 50% above the state average (41.2% against 27.4%).

People and education

41.6% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 4% above the state share (41.6% against 40.2%). 36.6% of residents were born outside the United States, 61% above the state share (36.6% against 22.8%). The poverty rate is 17.9%, 28% above the state rate (17.9% against 14.0%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 75°F (23.7°C), and the coolest is Jan at 34°F (1.1°C). About 1,313 mm (52 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Dec is the wettest month (133 mm) and Feb the driest (95 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Hoboken (7 miles, rent 61% higher); Jersey City (7 miles, rent 10% higher); Union City (9 miles, rent 16% lower); Bayonne (9 miles, rent 8% lower). Rent differences are against New York; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Where to live

CITY Official statistics Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year (via Census Reporter) · Data: ACS 2020–2024

Places within 50 miles (straight line) of New York, NY that have a guide, with what living there costs. No pay estimate is shown because the title did not match one occupation.

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Place ⇅Distance from the job city ⇅Median rent ⇅Median home value ⇅Median household income ⇅Commute 45+ min ⇅Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅Open jobs there ⇅
New York, NY0 mi$1,821$777,600$80,48341.2%n/aJobs
Hoboken, NJ7 mi$2,938$895,100$180,57938.7%n/aJobs
Jersey City, NJ7 mi$2,007$566,900$97,71036.0%n/aJobs
Union City, NJ9 mi$1,537$471,600$64,31027.9%n/a—
Bayonne, NJ9 mi$1,682$460,100$83,88731.0%n/a—
West New York, NJ9 mi$1,716$465,600$71,72930.6%n/a—
Secaucus, NJ11 mi$2,391$571,900$139,82133.9%n/aJobs
Cliffside Park, NJ11 mi$1,837$588,200$93,45233.1%n/a—
Edgewater, NJ11 mi$2,579$715,700$124,05043.6%n/aJobs
Fairview, NJ11 mi$1,694$511,400$63,60625.4%n/a—
Kearny, NJ11 mi$1,720$459,400$79,15426.6%n/a—
Woodmere, NY12 mi$2,720$975,400$172,53745.7%n/a—
North Valley Stream, NY12 mi$3,059$613,800$142,73336.1%n/a—
Valley Stream, NY12 mi$2,124$616,100$133,19034.5%n/a—
Elmont, NY12 mi$2,209$602,900$114,21735.9%n/a—
Harrison, NJ13 mi$2,226$505,800$93,01342.0%n/a—
Newark, NJ13 mi$1,392$373,700$52,06025.1%n/aJobs
North Arlington, NJ13 mi$1,738$474,500$94,20129.5%n/a—
Floral Park, NY13 mi$2,243$789,600$150,08432.3%n/a—
Fort Lee, NJ13 mi$2,270$448,000$107,27434.3%n/a—

Career paths

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Cybersecurity (762) Data, analytics and AI (3719) Cloud, IT and infrastructure (1147) Product management (927)

Distances

CITY Calculation (straight line) Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer (coordinates) · Data: 2024

How far New York, NY is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.

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From ⇅Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅Population of that city ⇅
New York, NY0 mi8,483,844
Philadelphia, PA77 mi1,579,706
Columbus, OH479 mi914,802
Charlotte, NC532 mi903,844
Indianapolis, IN646 mi885,860
Chicago, IL718 mi2,711,226
Jacksonville, FL834 mi977,670
Oklahoma City, OK1,327 mi697,125
Dallas, TX1,371 mi1,307,930
Fort Worth, TX1,401 mi963,194
Houston, TX1,419 mi2,328,253
Austin, TX1,512 mi979,539
San Antonio, TX1,583 mi1,479,835
Denver, CO1,625 mi718,877
Phoenix, AZ2,141 mi1,642,323
Seattle, WA2,407 mi754,195
San Diego, CA2,427 mi1,389,526
Los Angeles, CA2,459 mi3,857,263
San Jose, CA2,550 mi990,138
San Francisco, CA2,602 mi830,235

Nearby cities with open jobs (within 120 miles)

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City ⇅Straight-line distance ⇅Open jobs ⇅
Brooklyn, NY1 mi27
Jersey City, NJ7 mi113
Manhattan, NY8 mi18
Iselin, NJ21 mi2
Mahwah, NJ31 mi2
Deer Park, NY33 mi17
Darien, CT38 mi14
Lakewood, NJ42 mi2
Marlton, NJ74 mi15
Bethlehem, PA75 mi3
Fort Washington, PA75 mi2
Philadelphia, PA77 mi213
Atlantic City, NJ93 mi5
Wilmington, DE106 mi8
Newark, DE118 mi8

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