Gusto · 7 hours ago

Senior Engineering Manager, Payments

LA Metro Area

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$191K/yr - $225K/yr

12+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Develop the engineering team across payins and payouts to help build the long term vision of the payments team at Gusto. The leader will expand our payment/funding methods across US and International while ensuring that our 300K+ businesses and millions of their employees are getting paid on time, every time.

Lead, empower and coach a team across engineering for payments to i) drive technical guidance and consistent execution of the next generation of payments capabilities that enable Gusto to expand its product offerings; ii) recruit, hire, and onboard new engineering team members; iii) identify and address any roadblocks or challenges faced by the team; and iv) deliver scaled engineering solutions on time.

Enable reliable, efficient, compliant and cost effective end-to-end payments and money movement and work cross-functionally with Accounting and treasury to de-risk any payments related issues with bank partners.

Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence within the team. In addition, collaborate and communicate with senior management and stakeholders to develop and execute long-term strategies for Gusto’s engineering department.

Develop and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams, including product design, data science and growth teams to make tradeoffs that build customer trust.

Build and foster an inclusive, collaborative and high performance culture

Conduct regular 1:1s with your team members to support their continued growth and learning

Collaborate with our product management and design teams to define problem spaces and lead technical projects from initial planning, execution, to final delivery

Partner with Product, Design, Data and others within and outside your team

Help build and manage team processes and create a culture that enables the team to do its best work

Provide and receive mentorship and peer support

Qualification

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Engineering managementPayments experienceHands-on programmingCross-functional collaborationComputer Science degree

Required

12+ years of relevant hands-on programming experience

5+ years of engineering management experience

Experience on a Payments team

Comfortable guiding the team strategically as well as contributing hands on where it’s needed to support the team. Expect to be reviewing code, and coding where it’s needed to move the team along.

Comfortable navigating a complex and ambiguous problem space, and asking for help and clarification when needed

Experience in negotiating cross-functional projects and driving business growth

A desire to grow and learn on the job

Completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline; higher education preferred