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Salary: USD 212,000 - 274,000 / annual
Justworks is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Growth Expansion team in New York. This is a player-coach role where you will build and oversee a team of software engineers while maintaining hands-on technical involvement.
The Growth Expansion team drives revenue from the existing customer base by delivering products, features, and upgrade paths within the product as customer needs evolve. You will set up signals that indicate when customers are changing and translate those into product nudges, while building upsell and cross-sell motions that enable customer self-service.
Key responsibilities include:
- Coordinate with Engineers, Design, and Product Managers to prioritize, schedule, and execute projects for rapid feature development and shipping
- Partner with Product to define long-term strategy and quarterly roadmaps, setting goals and measuring progress
- Communicate and coordinate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and improvement opportunities
- Mentor engineers to grow their technical skills, 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 the organization
- Instill empathy in the team for internal stakeholders to create better, more efficient 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 values are anchored in COGIS: Camaraderie, Openness, Grit, Integrity, and Simplicity. The company emphasizes good judgment, resourcefulness, teamwork, communication, influence, leadership, and continuous learning.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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
