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Salary: USD 212,000 - 274,000 / annual
Justworks is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Benefits organization, which builds products and experiences helping businesses provide and manage employee benefits. The Benefits team spans Health Benefits, Wealth Benefits, and International Benefits, working to simplify complex processes and create seamless experiences for employers and employees in a highly regulated space.
In this role, you will lead and oversee a team of software engineers as a player-coach, balancing hands-on technical contribution with people management. You'll coordinate projects, set priorities, and motivate engineers to build and maintain features for customers. Key responsibilities include:
- Work with Engineers, Design, and Product Managers to prioritize, schedule, and execute projects for rapid feature development and shipping
- Partner with Product to define and execute the team's long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap, including goal-setting and success measurement
- Communicate and coordinate with cross-functional teams (inside and outside engineering) to understand requirements and improvement opportunities
- Mentor engineers to grow their technical skills by fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning
- Provide both technical and non-technical guidance to direct reports
- Attract, hire, develop, and retain a high-performing engineering team
- Drive sound technical decision-making and lead technical conversations across Justworks
- Instill empathy in the team for internal stakeholders to create better user experiences and more efficient workflows
You will succeed by exercising good judgment, resourcefulness, strong teamwork and communication, influence and leadership, and continuous learning. The company emphasizes its COGIS values: Camaraderie, Openness, Grit, Integrity, and Simplicity.
The Benefits organization partners closely with Product, Design, Operations, and external providers to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. Engineers solve complex problems, collaborate across disciplines, and build products with meaningful impact on businesses and the people they support.
Technologies used include Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, and DataDog.
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 grasp and explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- High levels of empathy and interpersonal skills
- Solid understanding of core web development technologies including data structures, data stores, algorithms, distributed systems, and common patterns
