Engineering Manager (Backend, International)

Justworks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid volunteer work

Paid parental leave

Work from home opportunities

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Headspace access

Udemy courses / BetterUp coaching

Equity opportunities

Job summary

Justworks is seeking an Engineering Manager in New York to build and oversee a team of software engineers as a player-coach. You will coordinate projects, set priorities, and motivate engineers to create and maintain features for our customers.

The role blends hands-on coding with mentoring, guiding technical decisions, and defining the team's long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap in collaboration with Product. Strong communication and empathy are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with production web apps.
• Experience leading and growing engineering teams.
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and oversee a software engineering team as a player-coach.
• Coordinate projects, set priorities, and motivate engineers.
• Partner with product/design to plan roadmaps and ship features.
• Mentor engineers and drive technical excellence and learning.
• Make sound technical decisions and guide cross-team collaboration.

Skills

7+ years software engineering

Team management

Strong communication

Empathy

Web development

Job description

• 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
• 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
• As an Engineering Manager, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:
• Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome
• Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it’s working on something new or thinking about how to do something better
• Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking
• Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve

Benefits

• Paid volunteer work
• Paid parental leave
• Work from home opportunities
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc
• Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more
• All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure
• Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching
• Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth

Not only do you have the broad, extensive knowledge of core software development technologies, but you also have a high level of empathy and the interpersonal skills to work cross-functionally in an organizationYou 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 plansDemonstrable experience prioritizing, crafting, and achieving plans7+ years of experience as a software engineer working on production web applicationsStrong communication skills with ability to grasp and explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical peopleHigh levels of empathy and interpersonal skillsMinimum of 1 year of experience managing a team of engineersSolid understanding of core web development technologies. i.e. Data structures, data stores, algorithms, distributed systems and common patterns around these frameworks