Engineering Manager

Who You Are

Not only do you have the broad extensive knowledge of core web development technologies in distributed environments, but you also have a high level of empathy and 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 prioritize, craft, and achieve plans. You are familiar with the modern and complex landscape of technologies, but you also have read this and nod your head approvingly.

As an Engineering Manager at Justworks, you will oversee a team of Software Engineers and work closely with Designers and Product Managers. You are responsible for coordinating projects, prioritization, and engineers to create and maintain features for our customers. This role requires a strong technical background and a passion for mentoring and growing teams.

About the Team

The Platform Services team is responsible for development of shared product services with API-driven approaches. This includes capabilities such as identity and access management (e.g. SSO and permissions), core product data services, mobile platform support, and customer communications. In this role, you will also have the opportunity to work with other engineering managers across the organization to promote the adoption of these horizontal product-oriented capabilities. Beyond product delivery work, engineering managers collaborate on agile processes, interviewing, training, and improving our systems, craft, and capabilities across all of engineering.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Work with the Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to prioritize, schedule and execute projects so we can quickly develop and ship new features
• Work with the team to build a scalable process to deliver iteratively and incrementally with consistent velocity
• Communicate and coordinate with other teams in and out of engineering to understand the requirements and opportunities for improvement
• Setting a high bar for technical ability and ownership, revisiting codebases as needed to evolve and improve them
• Provide guidance, both technical and non-technical, to direct reports
• Help recruit, source, interview and hire for the entire engineering team
• Performs other related duties as assigned

How You Will Do Your Work

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.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of experience as an Engineering Manager with track record of high quality technical delivery
• Experience with Golang and service-oriented architectures strongly preferred
• Solid understanding of mobile and web development technologies and API-driven approaches
• Demonstrable experience in prioritizing, crafting, and achieving roadmap plans
• Strong communication skills with the ability to grasp and explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical people
• Strong leadership skills necessary to manage and develop a team
• Solid experience in Agile/Lean practices and working closely with product management
• High levels of empathy and interpersonal skills

Technologies Used

• Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Typescript, React, Sidekiq, MySQL, Git, Redis, Kafka, CircleCI, DataDog, ElasticSearch, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $205,000.00 to $220,000.00 per year.

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