Engineering Manager, Tax Compliance

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

Who You Are

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.

What You Will Work On

As Engineering Manager for Workforce Payments, you will lead the team that builds the core computation layer powering Justworks’ payroll, money movement, and tax calculation products, ensuring our customers can confidently and accurately pay their workforce. This team is mission-critical, operating at the heart of our platform's financial accuracy and compliance. You will lead technical decision-making and be expected to take initiative in identifying projects that will enable us to meet key business goals, such as scaling our tax and money movement capabilities, improving the integrity of our financial ledger, and developing robust platform interfaces for payroll data.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Engineers, Design, and Product Managers to prioritize, schedule and execute projects so we can quickly develop and ship new features.
• Partner with Product to define and execute the team’s long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap, including setting goals and measuring progress/success towards them.
• Communicate and coordinate with other teams (inside and outside of engineering) 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.
• Provide guidance, both technical and non-technical, to direct reports.
• Attract, hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of engineers.
• Help drive sound technical decision-making and lead technical conversations with other teams across Justworks.
• Instill a sense of empathy in the team for our internal stakeholders to create better user experiences with an eye towards making workflows easier and more efficient.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer working on production web applications.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience managing a team of engineers.
• Demonstrable experience prioritizing, crafting, and achieving plans.
• 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.

Technologies Used

• Golang
• Ruby on Rails
• Javascript
• MySQL
• Kafka
• AWS
• Git
• Memcache
• Redis
• ElasticSearch
• Docker
• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• CircleCI
• DataDog

Salary

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $212,000.00 to $274,000.00 per year. Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location.