Engineering Manager, Time

Justworks•New York, NY

5d•$205,000 - $261,500•Hybrid

About The Position

As an Engineering Manager at Justworks, you will help build and oversee a team of software engineers as a player-coach. You are responsible for coordinating projects, setting priorities, and motivating engineers to create and maintain features for our customers. The role involves a mix of hands-on coding and a strong technical background, with a passion for mentoring and growing teams. As Engineering Manager for Time Lifecycle, you'll be responsible for unifying time tracking, time off, leave management, shift scheduling, and project tracking across PEO, ASO, and EOR into a single system, replacing three fragmented legacy platforms. At the core of this work is building a compliance engine that automatically handles overtime, labor law, and pay rules across 50+ jurisdictions, while bringing leave management to life with native leave state, payroll pause, and proration support. The work also opens new verticals for Justworks by shipping the shift scheduling and project tracking capabilities that manufacturing, healthcare, and education customers require as table stakes. Ultimately, this role owns the full pipeline from time entry to time payable — meaning the code you write directly determines whether thousands of workers are paid correctly every pay period.

Requirements

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

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
Performs other related duties as assigned