Head of Engineering, Payments - San Francisco California

Company: Gusto
Location: San Francisco, California
Posted On: 02/02/2025

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That's why we're committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually.About the RoleGusto moves hundreds of billions of dollars per year. The Engineering leader will be part of the Payments team and will be responsible for a) leading a team for pay-ins and payouts to support money movement across US and International, and b) (re)architecting our payments platform to scale for the future. This role will be tasked with retaining, building, and leading a high performing and highly engaged engineering team. They will help the business scale through private and public phases of our company-building journey.As the Head of Engineering on the Payments team, you'll lead a team of 15+ engineers and managers, supporting them in their continued growth and success. You'll collaborate with a talented cross-functional team of Product, Design, and Data partners, focusing on building payments experiences that delight customers.Key Responsibilities:

• Develop the engineering team across pay-ins and payouts to help build the long-term vision of the payments team at Gusto.
• Lead, empower and coach a team across engineering for payments to drive technical guidance and consistent execution of the next generation of payments capabilities.
• Enable reliable, efficient, compliant and cost-effective end-to-end payments and money movement.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence within the team.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams, including product design, data science and growth teams.
• Provide and receive mentorship and peer support.Here's what we're looking for:
  • 12+ years of expertise in Payments platforms at scaled FinTech companies: Experience successfully leading payments teams at scaled Fintech companies.
  • Can build organizational scale: Has built and scaled multifunctional/multidisciplinary teams.
  • Is execution focused: The leader has a track record of executing bold ideas.
  • Inspiring leader: This individual has the ability to inspire folks to build the next generation of platform services.
  • Possess high judgment: Leadership is about making decisions and tradeoffs.
  • Completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline; higher education preferred.Please note that travel to Gusto's Denver office for onboarding is required for this position.Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $222,000 to $247,000 in Denver & most remote locations, and $261,000 to $290,000 in San Francisco and New York.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.Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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