Software Engineering Manager, Payroll Ledger

Gusto

full-time

Posted on: 9/26/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California, Colorado, New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $163,000 - $247,000 per year

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About the role

Guide critical parts of the Payroll Ledger engineering team and charter, empowering a team of engineers in different archetypes.
Interview and hire engineers.
Conduct regular 1:1s with your team members to support their continued growth and learning.
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 Ledger product vision and strategy.
Partner with Payments, Payroll Ops, Accounting, Customer Success, and others within and outside your team.
Proactively consider our org design and partner with other PEs on finding the right separation of responsibilities for our teams.
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.
Provide and receive mentorship and peer support.

8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience with backend systems and native mobile development.
2–4 years of engineering management experience including coaching, mentoring, and sustaining high-performing teams.
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.
A desire to grow and learn on the job.

Benefits

Stock equity is additional.
Employees who are based in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role).
Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
Inclusive and collaborative workplace; reference to Total Rewards philosophy.

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