Growth & Expansion Engineering Manager

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

Job summary

Justworks is seeking an Engineering Manager in New York City to lead a team of software engineers, balance hands-on coding with people leadership, and drive delivery of customer‑focused features. You will mentor engineers, coordinate cross‑functional projects with design and product, set priorities, and help shape a scalable technical roadmap while maintaining a culture of learning and collaboration.

Your role emphasizes empathy, clarity in communication, and fostering 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.
• 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 towards 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.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

Communication skills

Empathy

Mentoring

Web development

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 in New York City to lead a team of software engineers, balance hands-on coding with people leadership, and drive delivery of customer‑focused features. You will mentor engineers, coordinate cross‑functional projects with design and product, set priorities, and help shape a scalable technical roadmap while maintaining a culture of learning and collaboration.

Your role emphasizes empathy, clarity in communication, and fostering technical excellence