engineering
Posted Apr 16Senior Developer Experience Engineer
at Justworks
Mexico City, MexicoHybrid
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
- 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
- Implement security and compliance automation that protects without slowing teams down How You Will Do Your Work
- Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking.
Requirements
- 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.
- You’re equally comfortable debugging a flaky GitHub Actions workflow and designing a new internal CLI.
- Configure and roll out AI-assisted coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) with organizational guardrails
- 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
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, or similar) •
- Experience with feature management systems (LaunchDarkly, Split, etc.)
- Familiarity with workflow engines (Temporal, etc.)
- Experience configuring or rolling out AI coding assistants (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) Technologies
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, CircleCI
- Infrastructure: Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
- Languages: Go (primary), Python, TypeScript, Ruby - whatever fits the problem
Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience 3+ years of
Benefits
- The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $167,500.00 - $211,500.00 per year. #LI-DG2 #LI-Hybrid
- 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
Contact
- benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks .
- If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com .
Additional details
- 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.
- 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. Department
- You’ve built and maintained CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and automation that makes engineering teams faster.
- You care deeply about reducing friction and cognitive load for your fellow engineers.
- You’ll be one of the first dedicated engineers on a platform organization supporting 300+ engineers.
- You’ll shape not just the technical foundations but the culture and practices of the team.
- Work with our SRE team to instrument and measure developer