Data Engineering Manager, Justworks
Tax Technology
$205-220k
Business operations platform
Job no longer available
Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$205-220k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in a Data Engineering role, with a focus on building data pipelines and models
- Minimum of 1 year of experience managing or leading a team of engineers that have shipped mission critical software
- Recognized by your peers as a SQL wizard, you can analyze query plans to optimize queries that use complex joins and window functions
- Strong foundational knowledge in and experience with relational databases, data warehouses, data modeling, and ETL pipelines
- Expertise in programming languages commonly used in the data engineering community such as Python or Scala, and their respective data processing and analytics packages
- Strong knowledge of batch and streaming systems, workflow orchestration, monitoring and testing using systems such as Airflow, Spark Streaming, and Kafka
- Strong experience with governing data security and compliance
- Comfortable with ambiguity; you enjoy figuring out what needs to be done and setting appropriate deadlines and milestones to advance business objectives
- Ability to strike the right balance between competing product and engineering priorities to ensure the team delivers the right value to our customers
- Thrives in a collaborative environment where the best ideas win and can lead the the team to get behind them to achieve the desired outcome
- Fosters an engineering culture that distills simple solutions out of complicated problems and good judgment to select the right tools for the job
- Track record of recruiting and retaining world-class engineers necessary to build high performance engineering teams preferred
What the job involves
- Lead the development process and delivery of data pipelines that power tax computation, withholding, and reporting for Justworks customers
- Collaborate with the the team to design and implement the foundational data infrastructure, taking an active, hands-on role in coding and guiding the team as we scale
- Partner with Product to define and execute the team’s long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap, including setting goals and measuring progress/success towards them
- Mentor engineers to help them grow their technical skills by fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation and continuous learning
- Define and implement engineering best practices and processes to improve team efficiency and productivity
- Conduct code reviews, identify and resolve technical issues and ensure code quality and scalability
- Communicate and coordinate with other teams (in and outside of engineering) to understand the requirements and opportunities for improvement
- Attract, hire, and retain an amazing team of high-caliber data engineers
- Develop deep subject matter expertise in payroll taxation so that our data stakeholders don’t have to
- Help drive sound technical decision-making and lead technical conversations with other teams across Justworks
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Our take
Justworks operates in an increasingly crowded space of all-in-one business operation suites, that include tools like human resources, payroll, employee management, benefits, and others that businesses critically need to operate as they scale.
Globally, human resource management has become an extremely fertile field, worth over $20 billion annually and predicted to grow to over $50 billion annually by 2030 - creating great opportunity for Justworks to continue to grow. The company is regarded as a market leader, but does see competition in the shape of Paychex Flex, Rippling, Paylocity, and TriNet, among others.
Solutions delivered by Justworks have proven to be extremely popular with SMEs, and this has not gone unnoticed by investors, with the company picking up exceptional amounts of funding. Justworks is known to have sights on going public, though action towards this end has been delayed until global mass-market conditions have settled from a period of volatility. However, the company's 2024 acquisition of the international employment-of-record (EOR) company Via is a promising sign of it's continued strength.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$16.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $159.9m
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer work.
- Paid parental leave.
- Work from home opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc.
- Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more.
- All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure.
- Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching.
- Engineering Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth
Company HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
Leadership
Isaac Oates
(Founder & Directive)Experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon before founding Adtuitive and serving as COO for a year. Left this position to spend 3 years as a VP at Etsy, before founding Justworks.
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