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Salary: USD 205,000 - 261,500 / annual
Justworks is seeking an Engineering Manager for Backend to lead and grow a team of software engineers. This is a player-coach role combining hands-on technical contribution with people management and strategic oversight.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and oversee a team of backend engineers, providing mentorship and technical guidance
- Coordinate projects with Engineers, Design, and Product teams to prioritize and execute feature development
- Partner with Product to define long-term strategy, quarterly roadmaps, and success metrics
- Communicate and coordinate across teams to understand requirements and identify improvement opportunities
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning
- Attract, hire, develop, and retain high-performing engineers
- Drive sound technical decision-making and lead technical conversations across the organization
- Instill empathy in the team for internal stakeholders to create better user experiences
You will work with technologies including Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, and DataDog.
Justworks is an HR tech platform helping businesses streamline HR operations. The company values camaraderie, openness, grit, integrity, and simplicity (COGIS). You'll work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment with a focus on data-driven iteration and meaningful impact.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience as a software engineer working on production web applications
- Minimum 1 year of experience managing a team of engineers
- Demonstrable experience prioritizing, crafting, and achieving plans
- Strong communication skills with ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- High levels of empathy and interpersonal skills
- Solid understanding of core web development technologies: data structures, data stores, algorithms, distributed systems, and common patterns
