In order to serve our customers well for the ages to come, we are seeking a leader who can create foundational experiences & technologies that become a force multiplier for product engineering organizations.   The responsibilities include strengthening how our internal systems interact with each other through robust data strategy, bringing innovation through core UI/UX, Mobile and API through data driven thinking and disciplines, and scaling our core technologies thoughtfully through CI/CD and agile principles, to allow us to grow with confidence and for ages.

This role will require a good understanding of business operations as well as modern technology trends and architectural patterns.  This highly impactful and visible role requires a leader who can build a long-term vision, drive execution, and establish credibility and influence across the organization.  You are comfortable talking to business leaders using business vocabularies and also at ease talking to engineers about modern technologies.  You understand what customers need today and you understand what we will need to do proactively to serve our customers in the future.

We expect the size of this group will grow significantly over time and this is a mission critical role.

Your mission is to bring forward-thinking strategies and execute them to the most critical areas of the Justworks’s future.

• Cultivate engineering culture based on Justworks’ core value (COGIS - Camaraderie, Openness, Grit, Integrity, Simplicity)
• Grow, mentor and lead a team of talented managers and engineers.
• Lead the product engineering teams and solve mission critical problems for Justworks with high quality engineering disciplines.
• Proactively plan and execute scaling the technologies with Continuous Delivery as the first principle.
• Collaborate closely with business, product, design and other partners to improve efficiency of how we deliver product.
• Collaborate closely with business operation leaders to establish data engineering strategies to make us a strong data driven organization.
• Collaborate closely with advancing our security posture by improving identity management and  adding deeper insights.
• Provide guidance and support growth in other engineers on the team and across other teams
• Bring new ideas to scale the engineering organization as a part of the senior engineering leadership group.
• Help define and communicate technical standards and best practices
• Enhance our testing, monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure

As a Director 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:

• Good judgment - 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. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

• Minimum of 8 years experience growing, developing high-performance Engineering teams
• You are experienced in scaling a technology organization and growing teams.
• You are comfortable working with business and product partners in an agile environment.
• You have a deep empathy for customers, especially small business, and for your coworkers.
• You are not afraid of making changes but you do it thoughtfully.
• You have a gut feeling and vision but you also rely on data to back it up.
• You can talk about systems architecture and software development concepts from experience.
• You strive to learn new things and raise your own bar.

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $250,000.00 to $300,000.00 per year.

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