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JustworksJustworksNew York, NY

Engineering Manager, Product Foundations

Lead and scale a backend engineering pod as a technical Engineering Manager with 50/50 split between people management and hands-on technical guidance. Drive AI integration and cross-functional collaboration.

205k – 262k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

What You Will Work On

  • Lead, build, and scale a high-performing backend engineering pod
  • Act as a technical leader, mentor, and strategist balancing people leadership with technical execution
  • Bridge the gap between technical and non-technical teams
  • Champion the integration of AI to drive feature innovation and operational efficiency

How You Will Do Your Work

  • Exercise good judgment through critical thinking, analyzing problems, identifying patterns, understanding risks, and developing mitigation strategies
  • Demonstrate resourcefulness by taking a can-do approach and optimizing available resources
  • Foster teamwork and communication through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism
  • Exhibit influence and leadership by fostering knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking
  • Actively learn and apply domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 1 year of engineering management experience with proven track record in building and growing teams
  • Strong technical leader comfortable with 50/50 split between people management and hands-on technical guidance
  • Solid experience leveraging AI technologies to build modern features and optimize system maintenance
  • Exceptional cross-functional communication skills with ability to lead and collaborate across technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Core experience with Go, Microservices, Kubernetes, AWS, and Event-Driven Architecture
  • Core web technologies: data structures, data stores, algorithms, distributed systems and common patterns

Technologies Used

Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, DataDog

Compensation

The base wage range for this position is targeted at $205,000.00 to $261,500.00 per year. Actual compensation is based on multiple factors including skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location.

Skills

GoKubernetesAWSMicroservicesEvent-Driven ArchitectureRuby on RailsJavaScriptMySQLKafkaDockerTerraformRedisElasticsearchDatadogAi/Ml Integration
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