Engineering Manager, Workforce Payments Lead

Justworks; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 212,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Justworks is seeking an Engineering Manager for Workforce Payments in New York City. You will lead a team of engineers, driving payroll, money movement, and tax calculation features while balancing hands-on coding with mentorship.

You will partner with Product and other teams to shape roadmaps, ensure reliability, and deliver scalable solutions for customers. This role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and technical excellence.

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

Responsibilities

• Lead a software engineering team as a player-coach to deliver features for customers.
• Set priorities, coordinate projects, and mentor engineers to grow skills.
• Partner with Product to define long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap.
• Communicate and coordinate with other teams to understand requirements and opportunities for improvement.
• Drive sound technical decisions and foster a culture of excellence and learning.

Skills

Software engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Empathy

Communication

Prioritization

Tools

Golang

Ruby on Rails

Javascript

MySQL

Kafka

AWS

Git

Memcache

Redis

ElasticSearch

Docker

Terraform

Kubernetes

CircleCI

DataDog

Job description

Justworks is seeking an Engineering Manager for Workforce Payments in New York City. You will lead a team of engineers, driving payroll, money movement, and tax calculation features while balancing hands-on coding with mentorship.

You will partner with Product and other teams to shape roadmaps, ensure reliability, and deliver scalable solutions for customers. This role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and technical excellence.