2 months 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 builds cloud software that handles payroll, benefits, HR, and compliance for small businesses in the U.S., sold as a subscription with integrated services. Its platform runs payroll, files taxes, administers health insurance and 401(k)s, and offers tools for onboarding and time tracking. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company says it serves 500,000+ small businesses nationwide.