Engineering Manager (Tax Compliance)

Justworks

New York, United States Posted October 22, 2026

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On-site Full-time Entry level
Salary Range

$212,000 - $274,000

Job Description

Join Justworks as an Engineering Manager for Tax Compliance. In this role, you will lead a team of software engineers, coordinate projects, set priorities, and motivate your team to create and maintain features for our customers. You will be responsible for technical decision-making, project identification, and team strategy execution. This is a hands-on coding role that requires a strong technical background and a passion for mentoring and growing teams.

  • Coordination of projects, setting priorities, and motivating engineers to create and maintain features for customers.
  • Leading the team that builds the core computation layer powering payroll, money movement, and tax calculation products.
  • 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
  • We’re looking for people who have a passion for solving real-world, complex financial problems and will thrive building a growing team focused on reliability and precision
  • Demonstrable experience prioritizing, crafting, and achieving plans
  • Minimum of 1 year of experience managing a team of engineers
  • Strong communication skills with ability to grasp and explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical people
  • High levels of empathy and interpersonal skills
  • Solid understanding of core web development technologies. i.e. Data structures, data stores, algorithms, distributed systems and common patterns around these frameworks
  • 7+ years of experience as a software engineer working on production web applications
Required Skills
tax compliance decision making mentoring payroll mentoring engineers software development people leadership communication distributed systems
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