14 hours ago
Base Salary
$189k - $278k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical lead across multiple Money Group pods and set architectural direction for 15–20 engineers.
- Define technical vision and own projects that advance the group’s long-term architecture.
- Contribute to the architecture connecting Gusto’s People Stack and Finance Stack.
- Lead migration from a Ruby on Rails monolith to a service-oriented architecture across money movement, lending, and tax domains.
- Manage the partner ecosystem and lead technical due diligence for vendor evaluations.
- Build prototypes and proof-of-concepts to de-risk ideas and support product decisions.
- Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, and Operations on complex technical problems.
- Drive AI-native architecture decisions for transaction categorization, tax optimization, and conversational financial management.
- Provide technical consulting across teams and uphold standards through coding, design reviews, testing, and security practices.
- Mentor engineers and support the development of senior and staff engineers and healthy engineering teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience.
- Deep hands-on experience building financial infrastructure in regulated environments, including account and balance management, money movement, card systems, or lending.
- Proven experience engineering, scaling, and operating large interconnected production systems.
- Experience defining technical vision and leading multi-quarter architectural initiatives across one or more teams.
- Experience owning team-level OKRs and contributing to group-level technical strategy.
- Ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders and identify risks and opportunities early.
- Track record of raising technical standards through code quality, design rigor, testing, security practices, and engineering standards.
- Comfort with AI-assisted development tools and staying current with emerging software development approaches.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment and move from prototypes to production quickly.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity through RSUs.
- Stock equity is offered in addition to cash compensation.
- Employees based in Denver, San Francisco, or New York are expected to work from the office approximately 2–3 days per week or more depending on the role.
- Remote and non-office work requires a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection.
Tech Stack
Ruby on Rails
Categories
About Gusto
Gusto has been growing the small business economy for 15+ years. Not with just great technology, but with heart. We serve 500K+ businesses with payroll, HR, benefits, compliance, and more. Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we're the team in their corner. Licensing details: https://gusto.com/about/licenses