Engineering Manager, Workforce Payments

Justworks, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 212,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Justworks, based in New York City, is seeking an Engineering Manager for Workforce Payments to lead the core payroll, money movement, and tax calculation team. You will guide a team of engineers, balance hands-on coding with mentorship, and drive reliability and precision across payment workflows.

You will partner with product and design to scale tax and money movement capabilities, improve the financial ledger integrity, and build robust platform interfaces for payroll data.

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.

Responsibilities

• Work with Engineers, Design, and Product Managers to prioritize, schedule and execute projects so we can quickly develop and ship new features.
• Define and execute the team’s long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap, including setting goals and measuring progress toward them.
• Mentor engineers to help them grow their technical skills by fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation and continuous learning.
• Attract, hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of engineers.
• Lead technical decision-making and coordinate with other teams across Justworks.
• Instill a sense of empathy in the team for internal stakeholders to create better user experiences.

Skills

Software engineering

Team management

Prioritization & planning

Communication skills

Empathy & collaboration

Web technologies

Job description

Justworks, based in New York City, is seeking an Engineering Manager for Workforce Payments to lead the core payroll, money movement, and tax calculation team. You will guide a team of engineers, balance hands-on coding with mentorship, and drive reliability and precision across payment workflows.

You will partner with product and design to scale tax and money movement capabilities, improve the financial ledger integrity, and build robust platform interfaces for payroll data.