Software Engineering Manager Payments

The Money Movement (MM) team 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 integrations: ACH, wires, real-time payments, checks, and international and stablecoin rails through partners. MM owns connections to partner banks and payment providers, APIs for credits and debits, ingestion of bank data, and routing logic. The team also builds operational tooling for Payment Operations. MM is extracting money movement out of the monolith into a standalone Payments Service with a rails-factory architecture and stable API contracts.

As an Engineering Manager on the Money Movement team, you will empower a team of engineers, supporting their growth and success. You will collaborate with Product, Design, Data, Payment Operations, Accounting, and Treasury.

• Develop the engineering team across the Money Movement domain to build the long-term vision of the payments team.
• Lead, empower, and coach a team across engineering for payments, driving technical guidance and consistent execution of next-generation payment rails.
• Recruit, hire, and onboard new engineering team members.
• 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.
• Collaborate with senior management and stakeholders to develop long-term strategies.
• Develop strong relationships with cross-functional teams to make tradeoffs that build customer trust.

• 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 and contributing hands-on, including reviewing code and coding when needed.
• Experience growing and managing talent with varied experience levels
• Comfortable navigating complex and ambiguous problem spaces
• Willingness to debate and commit
• Experience shipping cross-functional projects and driving business growth
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline; higher education preferred
• Stays informed about AI capabilities relevant to engineering teams and incorporates them into workflows, tooling, and decision-making.

Cash compensation 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. Final offers may vary based on experience and expertise.

All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs).

Hybrid in New York, NY or San Francisco, CA. Employees based in Denver, San Francisco, or New York City are expected to work from the office approximately 2-3 days per week. The San Francisco office expectations encompass the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.

Apply via the provided Greenhouse link.