Engineering Manager

Justworks is seeking an Engineering Manager to join our team. In this role, you will help build and oversee a team of Software Engineers. You are responsible for coordinating projects, prioritization, and engineers to create and maintain features for our customers. While involving some hands-on coding, this role requires a strong technical background and a passion for mentoring and growing teams.

Our ideal candidate is not only knowledgeable about core web development technologies but also has a high level of empathy and interpersonal skills to work cross-functionally in an organization. You can grasp and communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Being able to see the bigger picture, you bring people together to effectively prioritize, craft, and achieve plans.

Responsibilities include:

• Working with the Engineers, Design, and Product Managers to prioritize, schedule and execute projects so we can quickly develop and ship new features
• Partnering with Product to define and execute the team’s long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap, including setting goals and measuring progress/success towards them
• Communicating and coordinating with other teams (inside and outside of engineering) to understand the requirements and opportunities for improvement
• Mentoring engineers to help them grow their technical skills by fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation and continuous learning
• Providing guidance, both technical and non-technical, to direct reports
• Attracting, hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of engineers
• Helping drive sound technical decision-making and lead technical conversations with other teams across Justworks
• Instilling 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

Qualifications:

• 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