Engineering Manager, Justworks

• As a Manager of Engineering, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:
• Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome
• Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better
• Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism
• Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking
• Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve
• 8+ years of experience in a Software Engineering role, with a focus on backend and API development
• Minimum of 2 years of experience managing or leading a team of engineers that have delivered and supported mission-critical software
• Advanced knowledge of a server-side language such as Ruby or Go
• Fluency in at least one SQL dialect and experience in relational database schema design
• Strong communication skills with the ability to grasp and explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical people
• Understanding of how to build resilient and maintainable systems in complicated business domains at scale
• 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 team to get behind them to achieve the desired outcome
• Fosters an engineering culture that distills simple solutions out of complicated problems and uses good judgment to select the right tools for the job
• Track record of recruiting and retaining world-class engineers necessary to build high-performing engineering teams
• High levels of empathy and interpersonal skills

Desirable

• Our Compliance team is hiring an Engineering Manager to build the next-generation SaaS platform for managing compliance for Payroll & Tax
• As Engineering Manager, you'll lead the team that owns the core backend service managing all Payroll & Tax related compliance at Justworks
• You will lead technical decision making on a mission critical team and be expected to take initiative in identifying projects that will enable us to meet business compliance goals
• We’re looking for people that have a passion for solving real-world problems and will thrive building a growing team
• The Compliance Setup Team's goal is to make various regulatory data reporting and workflow easier for our clients so they can focus on building their businesses
• The compliance Setup Team is working on greenfield projects, storing information about companies and employees. Our goal is to build workflows that are easy to use and delight our customers
• Lead the development process and delivery of mission-critical systems that manage the business revenue and invoicing for Justworks’ internal and external customers
• Partner with Product to define and execute the team’s long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap, including setting goals and measuring progress/success toward them
• Work cross-functionally with teams (within Engineering and across Justworks) to understand the requirements and opportunities for improvement
• 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
• Attract, hire, and retain high-caliber engineers
• Help drive sound technical decision-making and lead technical conversations with other teams across Justworks
• Perform other related duties as assigned