# Engineering Manager, Product Foundations

**Company:** [Justworks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/justworks)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $205k – $262k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, AWS, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, MySQL, Kafka, Docker, Terraform, Redis, Elasticsearch, Datadog, Ai/Ml Integration
**Posted:** 2026-06-23

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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