Engineering Manager, Tax Compliance

Description

The company helps small businesses handle HR so they can focus on running their business. The team is data-driven and keeps iterating on its products.

The Workforce Payments team builds the core computation layer behind payroll, money movement and tax calculation, so customers can pay their workforce accurately and confidently. The work is mission-critical, sitting at the centre of the platform's financial accuracy and compliance.

The company works on shared goals and values, which show up in both its product and its team. The culture is welcoming and casual, with company retreats and chances to learn from leaders in the startup community.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers as a player-coach, combining hands-on coding with people management.
• Work with engineers, designers and product managers to set priorities, schedule projects and ship features quickly.
• Partner with Product to set the team's long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap, including goals and how you measure progress.
• Take the lead on technical decisions and on projects that support key business goals, such as scaling tax and money movement, improving ledger integrity and building platform interfaces for payroll data.
• Coordinate with teams inside and outside engineering to understand requirements and find areas to improve.
• Mentor engineers and build a culture of technical excellence, innovation and continuous learning.
• Give technical and non-technical guidance to your direct reports.
• Recruit, hire, develop and keep a high-performing engineering team.
• Lead technical discussions with other teams across the company.
• Build empathy for internal stakeholders and make workflows simpler and more efficient.
• Take on other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer on production web applications.
• At least 1 year of experience managing a team of engineers.
• A record of setting priorities, shaping plans and delivering them.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex ideas to both technical and non-technical people.
• High empathy and strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across functions.
• A solid grasp of core web development technologies, such as data structures, data stores, algorithms, distributed systems and common patterns.
• Good judgment: you think critically, spot patterns and underlying issues, weigh risks, plan mitigations and own the outcome.
• Resourcefulness: you find a way forward with what you have, even when there are obstacles or limits.
• Teamwork and communication: you document, collaborate, listen, build relationships and share knowledge.
• Influence and leadership: you foster knowledge sharing, mentorship and forward thinking across a community.
• A commitment to learning and applying domain knowledge and best practices.
• Alignment with the company's COGIS values: camaraderie, openness, grit, integrity and simplicity.
• Experience with Golang, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI and DataDog.

Conditions

Base pay for this role in the New York City office is targeted at $212,000.00 to $274,000.00 per year.

Actual pay depends on factors such as skill set, relevant experience and work location. Ranges for other locations may differ based on local labor costs.

The company gives equal consideration to all applicants.

Benefits

• Access to the company's total rewards programme, including perks, benefits and wellness offerings, as described on its total rewards page.
• Company retreats and wellness program offerings.