- 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

- You’ll 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, you’ll 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 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.”

- Technologies Used: Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis,



ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, DataDog

Benefits

- Paid volunteer work

- Paid parental leave

- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc

- Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more

- All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure

- Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching

- Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth- 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

- Minimum of 1 year of professional hands-on experience

- Curiosity about AI tooling. We use AI daily for development and are shipping AI-powered features; you don’t need to be an expert, but you should be eager to experiment

- Experience with a contemporary server side language and willingness to learn Golang. Our legacy is Ruby/Rails

- Product-minded approach. Comfortable working directly with product partners, navigating ambiguity, understanding customer problems, and making tradeoffs that balance technical quality with shipping value

- REST APIs; understanding how to build and consume HTTP APIs

- Proficiency in SQL. Comfort with writing queries and understands relational data models

📌 Associate Software Engineer (Expenses) (Toronto)
🏢 Justworks
📍 Toronto