Engineering Manager: Player‑Coach & Tech Leader

Justworks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 205,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Justworks, based in New York City, is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers, influence product direction, and drive cross-functional collaboration. The role blends hands-on coding with mentoring and people leadership to deliver customer-focused features.

The base wage range for this position, in our New York City office, is targeted at $205,000 to $261,500 per year. Compensation varies by experience and location; see Total Rewards for details.

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

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 toward them
• Communicate and coordinate with other teams 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
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Skills

Software engineering

People management

Prioritization

Communication

Empathy

Web development fundamentals

Tools

Golang

Ruby on Rails

Javascript

MySQL

Kafka

AWS

Git

Memcache

Redis

ElasticSearch

Docker

Terraform

Kubernetes

CircleCI

DataDog

Job description

Justworks, based in New York City, is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers, influence product direction, and drive cross-functional collaboration. The role blends hands-on coding with mentoring and people leadership to deliver customer-focused features.

The base wage range for this position, in our New York City office, is targeted at $205,000 to $261,500 per year. Compensation varies by experience and location; see Total Rewards for details.