Software Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Gusto's Risk Engineering team as an Engineering Manager and lead a team of 5+ engineers in building and maintaining platform capabilities to prevent fraud and improve credit access. You will define best-in-class user experiences to mitigate financial and reputation risk, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Data) to define problem spaces and lead technical projects. This role requires 6+ years of programming experience, 2+ years of engineering management, and experience in FinTech. Onboarding requires travel to Gusto's Denver office. Compensation is competitive, with stock equity included.

Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant hands-on programming experience
• 2+ years of engineering management experience
• Experience on a FinTech (Payments and/or Risk) team
• Comfortable navigating a complex and ambiguous problem space, and asking for help and clarification when needed
• Experience in negotiating cross-functional projects and driving business growth
• A desire to grow and learn on the job
• Completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline; higher education preferred
• Travel to Gusto's Denver office for onboarding is required

Responsibilities

• Help define, build and maintain bad actor platform capabilities to prevent fraudsters from abusing Gusto’s platform while improving false positive rate and experiences across the entire customer journey
• Build and maintain the credit underwriting and collections platform to enable faster and greater access to credit while minimizing financial loss
• Build and foster an inclusive, collaborative and high performance culture
• Conduct regular 1:1s with your team members to support their continued growth and learning
• Collaborate with our product management and design teams to define problem spaces and lead technical projects from initial planning, execution, to final delivery
• Partner with Product, Design, Data and others within and outside your team
• Help build and manage team processes and create a culture that enables the team to do its best work
• Provide and receive mentorship and peer support

Preferred Qualifications

Comfortable guiding the team strategically as well as contributing hands on where it’s needed to support the team. Expect to be reviewing code, and coding where it’s needed to move the team along

Benefits

• Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $160,000/yr to $189,000/yr in Toronto and $199,000/yr to $235,000/yr for San Francisco, New York & Seattle. Stock equity is additional
• Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role)
• When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required