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Salary: USD 212,000 - 274,000 / annual
Justworks is seeking an Engineering Manager for Tax Compliance to lead the Workforce Payments team, which builds the core computation layer powering payroll, money movement, and tax calculation products. This is a mission-critical role operating at the heart of the platform's financial accuracy and compliance.
You will serve as a player-coach, balancing hands-on technical contribution with team leadership. Your responsibilities include:
- Leading and growing a team of software engineers, including hiring, mentoring, and retention
- Coordinating projects with Engineers, Design, and Product Managers to prioritize and execute features
- Partnering with Product to define long-term strategy and quarterly roadmaps with measurable goals
- Communicating and coordinating across teams to understand requirements and identify improvement opportunities
- Mentoring engineers to develop technical skills and foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
- Providing both technical and non-technical guidance to direct reports
- Driving sound technical decision-making and leading technical conversations across the organization
- Instilling empathy in the team for internal stakeholders to improve user experiences and workflow efficiency
The role emphasizes good judgment, resourcefulness, teamwork, communication, influence, and leadership. You'll 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 offers a welcoming, casual environment with strong benefits, wellness programs, and company retreats.
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: data structures, data stores, algorithms, distributed systems, and common patterns
