Justworks
Engineering Manager, Benefits
$212K–$274K
New York, New York · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years as a software engineer on production web applications; minimum 1 year managing a team of engineers.
About the job
Leads and mentors a software engineering team building and maintaining employee benefits products, combining hands-on coding with technical and people leadership.
What you'll do
- Coordinate projects, priorities, and delivery; partner with Product on strategy, roadmaps, goals, and progress.
- Mentor, hire, develop, and retain engineers while providing technical and non-technical guidance.
- Lead technical decision-making and cross-functional collaboration to deliver reliable benefits experiences.
What they ask for
- 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.
- Solid understanding of core web development technologies, including data structures, data stores, algorithms, distributed systems, and common patterns.
Pay
USD 212,000 to USD 274,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
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