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Justworks Engineering Manager in Toronto, Canada
Engineering Manager at Justworks (View all jobs)
Toronto, Canada
Who We Are
At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.
We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
Our Values (https://www.justworks.com/careers#values)
If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.
Toronto Office
Get in on the ground floor of our new R&D office!
Over time, our office will grow into a pillar of the technology community in Toronto. We want to attract thought leaders, who are passionate about solving engineering problems, to form the foundation of our team. Being an Engineering Manager means that you’ll have a high degree of impact and autonomy on how the engineering team and culture grows in Toronto.
Who You Are
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.
What You Will Work On
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
How You Will Do Your Work
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:
Good judgement - 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.
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.
In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. Read more about those values here. (https://www.justworks.com/about/our-company)
Qualifications
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
Technologies Used
React, Ruby on Rails, Go, GraphQL, Apollo, Javascript/React, Redux, Sidekiq, MySQL, Git, Redis
CircleCI, DataDog, AWS, ElasticSearch, Docker, Redshift, Jenkins, Nagios
Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.
For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks (https://www.justworks.com/careers#total-reward-philosophy) .
Diversity At Justworks
Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.
Our DEIB Report and Our DEI Commitment (https://justworks.com/blog/black-lives-matter-90-days-later)
