Director of Engineering, Tax Accuracy

Summary

Join Gusto as a senior engineering leader to build the future of Gusto's core payroll and tax products, platform capabilities for all things payroll, and improving existing systems for extensibility and scalability.

Requirements

• At least 12 years of professional software engineering experience
• At least 5 years empowering engineering teams
• Demonstrated history of empowering other leaders (empowering managers or tech leads)—you’ll start with a single team but should be comfortable expanding as we grow
• 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

Responsibilities

• Guide critical parts of the Payroll Services engineering team and charter, empowering a team of senior engineers in different archetypes
• 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
• Conduct regular 1:1s with your team members to support their continued growth and learning; Interview and hire senior engineers
• 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 product vision and strategy; Partner with Compliance, Payroll Ops, and Customer Success
• Proactively consider our org design and partner with other People Empowerers (people managers) on finding the right separation of responsibilities for our teams
• Be an active contributor in the leadership community through mentorship and peer support

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k)s
• Expert HR
• Team management tools