About the company
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.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve CI/CD infrastructure (GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines) to improve build times and deployment frequency
- Build and maintain our developer portal (Backstage) - service catalog, golden path templates, and TechDocs integration
- Create golden path templates for Go, Rails, and Vue.js services that bake in best practices automatically
- Build and maintain internal developer tooling that accelerates engineering workflows
- Configure and roll out AI-assisted coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) with organizational guardrails
- Create self-service capabilities that enable teams to ship independently - from “I need a new service” to running in staging in under 4 hours
- Drive adoption of platform capabilities through excellent documentation and developer education
- Work with our SRE team to instrument and measure developer experience metrics (build times, deploy frequency, MTTR) to identify improvement opportunities
- Implement security and compliance automation that protects without slowing teams down
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 3+ years of experience building developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or infrastructure automation
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions strongly preferred)
- Experience with developer portals or internal platform tooling (Backstage strongly preferred; Cortex, Port, or similar also valuable)
- Experience with Kubernetes deployments and container orchestration
- Proficiency in at least two programming languages; polyglot mindset valued
- Frontend development skills - you’ll be building portal UI and developer-facing tools
- Strong systems thinking and ability to design for scale and reliability
- Excellent written communication - you document as you build
Nice to have:
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, or similar)
- Experience with feature management systems (LaunchDarkly, etc.)