About the Role
As an Engineering Manager at Justworks, you will help build and oversee a team of software engineers as a player-coach. You are responsible for coordinating projects, setting priorities, and motivating engineers to create and maintain features for our customers. The role involves a mix of hands-on coding and a strong technical background, with a passion for mentoring and growing teams.
Responsibilities
•Work with the Engineers, Design, and Product Managers to prioritize, schedule and execute projects so we can quickly develop and ship new features
•Partner with Product to define and execute the team's long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap, including setting goals and measuring progress/success towards them
•Communicate and coordinate with other teams (inside and outside of engineering) to understand the requirements and opportunities for improvement
•Mentor engineers to help them grow their technical skills by fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation and continuous learning
•Provide guidance, both technical and non-technical, to direct reports
•Attract, hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of engineers
•Help drive sound technical decision-making and lead technical conversations with other teams across Justworks
•Instill a sense of empathy in the team for our internal stakeholders to create better user experiences with an eye towards making workflows easier and more efficient
•Performs other related duties as assigned
Requirements
•Broad, extensive knowledge of core software development technologies, combined with a high level of empathy and interpersonal skills to work cross-functionally
•Ability to grasp and communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
•Ability to see the bigger picture and bring people together to effectively prioritize, craft, and achieve plans
•7+ years of experience as a software engineer working on production web applications
•Minimum of 1 year of experience managing a team of engineers
•Demonstrable experience prioritizing, crafting, and achieving plans
•Strong communication skills with ability to grasp and explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical people
•High levels of empathy and interpersonal skills
•Solid understanding of core web development technologies, i.e. data structures, data stores, algorithms, distributed systems and common patterns around these frameworks
Technologies Used
Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, DataDog
About Justworks
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. Justworks is helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business, solving HR issues, and is data-driven, never stopping iterating.
Actual compensation is based on multiple factors 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.
