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Justworks is seeking an Engineering Manager for Backend to lead and grow a team of software engineers in Mexico City. 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, goals, 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
- Lead technical decision-making and facilitate technical conversations across the organization
- Instill empathy in the team for internal stakeholders to improve user experiences and workflow efficiency
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 manage payroll, benefits, and HR operations. The company values collaboration, openness, grit, integrity, and simplicity (COGIS). You'll work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment with company retreats, wellness programs, and opportunities to learn from startup leaders.
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
