Staff Engineer, Payroll

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to actively shape WorkMotion's growth story. As our Staff Engineer within our Payroll team, you’ll have the chance to experience a unique 360° perspective behind the curtains of a textbook hyper-growth scale-up.

**What your team will look like**:
You will join one of our agile and cross functional engineering teams, focused on our Workmotion platform’s payroll domain. This involves collecting and processing data related to payroll and implementing integrations with other payroll providers. The payroll team also enables our clients to upload their employees’ payslips and automates the absences and time off requests. Our engineering teams provide the technology to extend our capabilities and celebrate wins in an agile environment.

Our Payroll team is diverse with employees working remotely from Germany, Egypt, Indonesia and Spain. The team includes Backend Engineers, Frontend Engineers, QA and Product managers and follows the scrum model (2 weekly sprints, daily standups, weekly refinements ect)

**What your Tech Stack will look like**:

- Languages: Java, JavaScript, CSS, React, TypeScript
- Frameworks: Spring Boot, Hibernate, Redux
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- Cloud: AWS
- Tools: Docker, Github, JIRA, Confluence

**What you’ll do**:

- You will drive microservices architecture
- Deliver high-quality software features that meet coding and design patterns best practices.
- Follow DevOps best practices - including continuous integration and unit testing, You build it, you ship it.
- You will contribute to requirement analysis, design and architecture decisions
- Commitment to quality and timely delivery of assigned work products.
- Conduct code reviews of work done by other engineers in the team.
- Troubleshoot failures during testing, including reproducing faults, evaluating requirements, and documenting root cause analysis.

**What we’re looking for**:

- Proven working experience in Java development for at least 5 years
- You have experience in JAVA including Spring framework.
- You're familiar with Test-driven development.
- You have experience with relational databases e.g. PostgreSQL
- You have experience with building API e.g. RESTful architecture
- You are ideally familiar with agile e.g. SCRUM or KANBAN
- You love to get things done
- Dev-ops experience is a big plus (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Solid Infrastructure Experience is a big plus (AWS & DevOps)

**What we offer**:

- As a fully remote and completely distributed team, you can do your best work from anywhere you are the happiest
- Opportunities to get to know some of your colleagues at our offices
- Competitive salary
- Merit-based culture with substantial growth opportunities
- Trust-based work - organise your own schedule. We want to celebrate results, not hours spent working
- Collaborative team culture where everyone's input is valued
- Subsidised gym membership subscription and other benefits
- Training and development allowance
- Regular company and team events like Summer or Christmas parties, and more (COVID permitting)
- _Some benefits may vary due to local law and regulations._

**Who we are**:
We are a remote-first tech startup founded in 2020, offering an all-in-one HR-service to our clients, allowing them to hire the very best talent anywhere in the world (WorkGlobal). Additionally, our solution helps our clients become a company of choice, by enabling them to offer temporary employment to their employees through our easy to use WorkFlex product.

A stellar founding team is leading WorkMotion, backed by one of the most renowned early-stage investors in Europe. If you like to roll up your sleeves and get all in, we can do it and build the #futureofwork together You will be part of our incredible intercultural team, based all over the world and have the chance to learn and grow alongside the company.
- No matter what you look like, where you’re from or where you prefer to work, we encourage all to apply. We believe that the more diversified we are, the more we can revolutionise the working world_