Engineering Manager (Tax Compliance)

Join Justworks, a leading platform for small businesses, as an Engineering Manager for Workforce Payments. In this mission-critical role, you will lead the team responsible for building the core computation layer for payroll, money movement, and tax calculation products. You will drive technical decision-making, identify key projects, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. This position offers a range of benefits, including paid volunteer work, parental leave, work-from-home opportunities, and extensive learning and development opportunities.

• Lead the team responsible for building the core computation layer for payroll, money movement, and tax calculation products.
• Collaborate with Product to define and execute the team’s long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap, including setting goals and measuring progress.
• Mentor engineers to help them grow their technical skills and foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.

• 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
• As an Engineering Manager, 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
• 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
• 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.”
• 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
• 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