Engineering Manager (Benefits)

Join Justworks as an Engineering Manager in the Benefits organization. In this role, you will build and oversee a team of software engineers, coordinate projects, set priorities, and motivate engineers to create and maintain features for our customers. You will work closely with Product, Design, Operations, and external providers to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in a highly regulated space. This position requires a mix of hands-on coding and a strong technical background, with a passion for mentoring and growing teams.

• Coordinating projects, setting priorities, and motivating engineers to create and maintain features for customers.
• Partnering with Product to define and execute the team’s long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap, including setting goals and measuring progress.
• Mentoring engineers to help them grow their technical skills by fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.

• Not only do you have the broad, extensive knowledge of core software development technologies, but you also have a high level of empathy and the interpersonal skills to work cross-functionally in an organization
• You can grasp and communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Being able to see the bigger picture, you bring people together to effectively prioritize, craft, and achieve plans
• Demonstrable experience prioritizing, crafting, and achieving plans
• High levels of empathy and interpersonal skills
• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer working on production web applications
• Strong communication skills with ability to grasp and explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical people
• Minimum of 1 year of experience managing a team of engineers
• Solid understanding of core web development technologies. i.e. Data structures, data stores, algorithms, distributed systems and common patterns around these frameworks