Engineering Manager - Lead, Mentor & Ship Impact (Hybrid)

Justworks, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 205,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Justworks, Inc. in New York City is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers, balancing hands-on coding with strategic oversight and mentoring.

You will help set priorities, guide architecture, and grow engineers’ skills while working across product, design, and operations. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to define a long-term roadmap, drive critical initiatives, and ensure delivery of high-impact features that improve our customers’ experience.

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, data structures, data stores, algorithms, distributed systems and common patterns around these frameworks.

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

Skills

Software engineering

Team management

Prioritization

Communication

Empathy

Web development

Job description

Justworks, Inc. in New York City is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers, balancing hands-on coding with strategic oversight and mentoring.

You will help set priorities, guide architecture, and grow engineers’ skills while working across product, design, and operations. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to define a long-term roadmap, drive critical initiatives, and ensure delivery of high-impact features that improve our customers’ experience.