Engineering Manager, Product Foundations

Justworks•New York, NY

8h•$212,000 - $274,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Justworks is hiring an Engineering Manager for its Product Foundations team, which owns core platform capabilities including reporting and analytics, document management, training, calendars, communications, and organizational data access for administrators and employees. The team builds intuitive, reliable, and scalable experiences that help customers access information, complete important workflows, and manage their organizations. Its work balances mission-critical stability and performance with innovation, usability, self-service, and reduced customer friction. The team also developed the company’s first AI-powered product experience. The Engineering Manager will lead, build, and scale a high-performing backend engineering pod as a player-coach, balancing people leadership with hands-on technical execution. The role involves coordinating projects, setting priorities, motivating and mentoring engineers, and guiding the development and maintenance of customer-facing features. The manager will connect technical and non-technical teams and champion AI integration to support feature innovation and operational efficiency. Success in the role requires sound judgment, resourcefulness, teamwork and communication, influence and leadership, and continued learning. Justworks also expects employees to align with its COGIS values: Camaraderie, Openness, Grit, Integrity, and Simplicity.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience as a software engineer working on production web applications.
At least 1 year of industry engineering management experience, with a proven track record in building and growing teams.
Ability to balance people management and hands-on technical guidance in an approximately 50/50 split.
Strong technical leadership and a background in software development technologies.
Experience leveraging AI technologies to build modern features and optimize system maintenance.
Exceptional cross-functional communication skills and ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
High empathy and strong interpersonal skills.
Core experience with Go, microservices, Kubernetes, AWS, and event-driven architecture.
Knowledge of core web technologies, including data structures, data stores, algorithms, distributed systems, and common patterns.

Responsibilities

Lead, build, and scale a high-performing backend engineering pod.
Balance people management with hands-on technical guidance and execution.
Coordinate projects, set priorities, and motivate engineers to create and maintain customer features.
Mentor and grow engineers and foster knowledge-sharing, collaboration, and forward-thinking.
Bridge technical and non-technical teams and collaborate across stakeholders.
Champion the use of AI to drive feature innovation and operational efficiency.
Build reliable and scalable platform experiences while balancing mission-critical stability and performance with innovation.