Engineering Manager, Tax Payments and Filings
Gusto
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Denver • California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $163,000 - $204,000 per year
About the role
- Build and foster an inclusive, collaborative, and impact-oriented culture
- Coach, mentor, and sustain a high-performing team of engineers, including regular 1:1s and performance coaching
- Maintain cross-functional relationships with key partners in Product, Data, Tax Operations, Tax Filings Compliance, and with engineering and product leaders on other Tax teams
- Help set technical direction on the team, ensuring that we are meeting our compliance commitments, as well as advocating for work to reduce the operational overhead of adapting to changing tax legislation
- Advocate for and build systems that enable us to hold our correctness bar incredibly high, while also enabling iteration, experimentation, and speed
- Work to understand the context-rich Tax domain, to be able to weigh in on the team’s technical decisions
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience with backend systems.
- 2-4 years of engineering management experience including coaching, mentoring, and sustaining high-performing teams
- Deep technical expertise in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining high-volume, mission-critical systems, ideally in a product area with a regulatory (or similar) surface area.
- Expertise in ensuring operational excellence for critical production systems, including setting and meeting SLOs, robust incident management, and navigating complex compliance landscapes.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills - you’re comfortable navigating complexity and bringing together teams across orgs.
- A strong service mindset - you lead with curiosity, care deeply about people, and empower those around you.
- Bonus, but a big one: experience with financial and/or other regulatory systems (like Tax!)
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible working hours
- Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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