Engineering Manager (Backend, International)

Join Justworks as an Engineering Manager, where you will lead a team of software engineers, coordinate projects, set priorities, and motivate your team to create and maintain features for our customers. This role requires a mix of hands-on coding and a strong technical background, with a passion for mentoring and growing teams. You will work closely with engineers, design, and product managers to prioritize, schedule, and execute projects, and communicate with other teams to understand requirements and opportunities for improvement.

• Coordinating projects, setting priorities, and motivating engineers to create and maintain features for customers.
• Working with Engineers, Design, and Product Managers to prioritize, schedule and execute projects for quick development and shipping of new features.
• 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
• 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
• High levels of empathy and interpersonal skills
• 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