Senior Software Engineer, Benefits
Justworks · New York, NY
$188,000–$242,000from the description
Jul 7, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role within a Benefits product organization, covering health, wealth, and international benefits domains. The work involves owning large-scoped features end to end, improving the reliability and scalability of high-volume processing systems, and keeping sensitive data secure. The role suits an experienced engineer comfortable with cross-functional collaboration and technical mentorship in a regulated environment.
Senior level · 5+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,900 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,900–5,100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (4)
The qualifications section requires mastery of 'modern server side languages' as a hard gate, with Golang explicitly called out as 'a plus but not required' — so Golang is preferred, not required. The server-side language requirement itself is a gate but names no single specific tool, so no named-technology skill is emitted for it.
AWS is listed as preferred ('preferably AWS') within the cloud infrastructure requirement, which is itself a hard gate. AWS is marked required per the rule that a substitution qualifier ('preferably') does not demote the capability gate; Azure and GCP are listed as alternatives.
All technologies in the 'Technologies Used' section (Golang, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, MySQL, Kafka, Git, Memcache, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, Datadog) appear only as stack context, not under a requirements heading, and are therefore marked preferred.
The role is hybrid (NYC office), not fully remote, per the #LI-Hybrid tag and the explicit NYC salary range framing.
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