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Gusto is looking for an engineering leader to lead the Payroll Ledger team, which is on a multi-year journey to become the source of truth for customer cash, ensuring accurate tracking and management of every cent of customer cash.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience with backend systems and native mobile development.
• 2–4 years of engineering management experience including coaching, mentoring, and sustaining high-performing teams
• Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand and debate technical and product tradeoffs and approaches to building scalable architecture and data models

Responsibilities

• Guide critical parts of the Payroll Ledger engineering team and charter, empowering a team of engineers in different archetypes
• Provide technical leadership in defining the product and platform solutions
• Collaborate with design and product management partners to build and drive Gusto’s Payroll Ledger product vision and strategy
• Partner with Payments, Payroll Ops, Accounting, Customer Success, and others within and outside your team
• Proactively consider our org design and partner with other PEs on finding the right separation of responsibilities for our teams
• Model Gusto’s values in your immediate team, and as part of the broader Gusto community
• Provide and receive mentorship and peer support

Other

• Interview and hire engineers
• Conduct regular 1:1s with your team members to support their continued growth and learning
• Collaborate with the extended team during daily “Team Times” where we plan, pair program, and laugh together
• Comfort navigating a complex and ambiguous problem space, and asking for help and clarification when needed
• Strong product sense, including the ability to tell a story about the “why”, simplify complex technical concepts, and motivate and inspire others to contribute
• A focus on building with quality and rigor, while keeping in mind the impact our code has on our customers’ financial well-being
• A desire to grow and learn on the job