Software Engineering Manager Payments

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.

The Software Engineering Manager Payments role is located in New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, CA - Hybrid.

About the Team:

Money Movement (MM) is a core Payments Engineering team responsible for moving money at Gusto , reliably, on time, and at scale.

The team owns Gusto’s payment rails and the integrations behind them: ACH, wires, real-time payments, checks, and international and stablecoin rails through partners.

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.
• Own reliable, efficient, compliant and cost-effective end-to-end money movement across every rail.
• 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.

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 levels.
• Willingness to debate and commit.
• Completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.

What We Offer:

• Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs)
• Cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $183,000-$200,000 /yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $222,000-$245,000 /yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York