Software Engineering Manager, Payroll Ledger

About the Role:

Gusto is looking for a hands-on engineering leader to lead the Payroll Ledger team. This team is on a multi-year journey to become the source of truth to power business decisions and reporting for customer cash - ensuring accurate tracking and management of every cent of customer cash.

As a key member of Payroll's engineering leadership team, your role will encompass building a dynamic team and contributing to building a thriving business. You will also be responsible for working collaboratively with other cross-functional teams and leaders to build a product that helps Gusto scale.

If you are a customer-centric builder who thrives on making a substantial impact within a high-growth organization, we would be thrilled to hear from you!

About the Team:

You’ll be a part of Payroll, a core part of the Pay Group and the team most directly connected to our customers' peace of mind. We believe that getting payroll right isn’t just a feature - it’s the foundation of trust with every business we serve. We don't just build software; we take on the immense complexity of payroll so our customers can focus on their passions. Our vision is to make the hard work of paying a team disappear, transforming it into a seamless, automated, and even magical experience.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Guide critical parts of the Payroll Ledger engineering team and charter, empowering a team of engineers in different archetypes
• 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
• 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
• Provide technical leadership in defining the product and platform solutions
• Model Gusto’s values in your immediate team, and as part of the broader Gusto community
• Provide and receive mentorship and peer support

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 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
• 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
• Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand and debate technical and product tradeoffs and approaches to building scalable architecture and data models
• A desire to grow and learn on the job

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $163,000/yr to $204,000/yr in Denver, $198,000/yr to $247,000/yr for San Francisco & New York. Stock equity is additional. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.