About the Company
At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve.
Responsibilities
- Develop the engineering team across the Money Movement domain to help build the long term vision of the payments team at Gusto.
- Lead, empower and coach a team across engineering for payments to drive technical guidance and consistent execution of the next generation of payment rails and money movement capabilities.
- Own reliable, efficient, compliant and cost effective end-to-end money movement across every rail — including on-call ownership, SLOs, and error budgets for tier-1 payment systems.
- Drive the modularization of payments: lead the extraction of money movement into a standalone service with clean API contracts.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence within the team.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant hands-on programming experience
- 3+ years of engineering management experience
- Experience managing a Payments platform team
- Comfortable guiding the team strategically as well as contributing hands on where it’s needed.
- Experience with growing and managing talent with varied experience level
- Comfortable navigating a complex and ambiguous problem space
- Willingness to debate and commit
- Experience in shipping cross-functional projects and driving business growth
- Completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline
- Stays informed about AI capabilities relevant to engineering teams and thoughtfully incorporates them into workflows.
Conditions
- Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs)
- Cash compensation targeted at $183,000-$200,000 /yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $222,000-$245,000 /yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York