Engineering Manager, Justworks
Business operations platform
Open for applications
Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of two years of experience managing a team of frontend and backend engineers
- Demonstrable experience coding in a modern programming language
- Demonstrable experience in prioritizing, crafting, and achieving 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
- Experience as a Scrum Master and/or recent CSM, PMI-ACP, CSP-SM is a plus
What the job involves
- Not only do you have the broad extensive knowledge of core web development technologies, 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 effectively prioritize, craft, and achieve plans
- 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
- While involving some hands-on coding, this role requires a strong technical background and a passion for mentoring and growing teams
- Work with the Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to prioritize, schedule and execute projects so we can quickly develop and ship new features
- Communicate and coordinate with other teams in and out of engineering to understand the requirements and opportunities for improvement
- Provide guidance, both technical and non-technical, to direct reports
- Help recruit, source, interview and hire for the entire engineering team
- Help shape the culture in Toronto to make it a vibrant and engaging work place
- Performs other related duties as assigned
- 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:
Our take
Justworks operates in an increasingly crowded space of all-in-one business operation suites, that include tools like human resources, payroll, employee management, benefits, and others that businesses critically need to operate as they scale.
Globally, human resource management has become an extremely fertile field, worth over $20 billion annually and predicted to grow to over $50 billion annually by 2030 - creating great opportunity for Justworks to continue to grow. The company is regarded as a market leader, but does see competition in the shape of Paychex Flex, Rippling, Paylocity, and TriNet, among others.
Solutions delivered by Justworks have proven to be extremely popular with SMEs, and this has not gone unnoticed by investors, with the company picking up exceptional amounts of funding. Justworks is known to have sights on going public, though action towards this end has been delayed until global mass-market conditions have settled from a period of volatility. However, the company's acquisition of
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Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$16.9m
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Jan 2020
$50m
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Total funding: $159.9m
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer work.
- Paid parental leave.
- Work from home opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc.
- Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more.
- All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure.
- Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching.
- Engineering Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth
Company values
- Camaraderie: As a growing company, we know how crucial teamwork, higher purpose, and a healthy dose of fun can be to success. Be an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness: We believe in radical transparency. This means being willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. Be curious, ask open questions, and be receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit: They say when the going gets tough, the tough get going. We are a team of hardworking individuals with the courage to persevere. Be committed, be earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity: We do the right thing. Be honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity: We make things easy for everyone to understand and do. Be innovative, unafraid of streamlining processes, a clear and concise communicator, and don't overcomplicate solutions.
Company HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
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Founders
Isaac Oates
(Executive Chair)Experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon before founding Adtuitive and serving as COO for a year. Left this position to spend 3 years as a VP at Etsy, before founding Justworks.
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