# Software Engineering Manager, Payments

**Company:** [Gusto](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gusto)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $222k – $245k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Payments Platforms, Payment Rails, Ach, APIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, On-Call, Scalable Systems, Database Resilience, Payment Integrations, AI Tools
**Posted:** 2026-08-28

> Leads and develops the Money Movement engineering team, overseeing scalable, compliant payment infrastructure, payment-rail expansion, and modernization into a standalone service. Requires 8+ years of programming experience, 3+ years managing engineers, payments-platform leadership, and hands-on technical involvement.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop the engineering team across the Money Movement domain and help define the long-term payments vision.
- Expand payment rails across the United States and internationally while ensuring reliable, timely payments for customers and their employees.
- Lead, empower, and coach engineers; provide technical guidance and consistent execution for payment rails and money movement capabilities.
- Recruit, hire, onboard, and develop engineering talent across experience levels.
- Remove team roadblocks and deliver scalable engineering solutions on schedule.
- Own reliable, efficient, compliant, and cost-effective end-to-end money movement across payment rails, including on-call ownership, SLOs, and error budgets for tier-1 systems.
- Partner with Payment Operations, Accounting, Treasury, Product, Design, Data Science, and upstream product teams to resolve payment issues and make tradeoffs that build customer trust.
- Lead the extraction of money movement into a standalone payments service with clean API contracts and a rails-factory architecture.
- Foster innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence while communicating strategy to senior management and stakeholders.
- Review code and contribute hands-on programming when needed.
- Incorporate relevant AI capabilities into engineering workflows, tooling, and decision-making.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant hands-on programming experience.
- 3+ years of engineering management experience.
- Experience managing a payments platform team.
- Experience guiding teams strategically while contributing hands-on when needed, including code review and programming.
- Experience growing and managing talent across varied experience levels.
- Ability to navigate complex and ambiguous problem spaces.
- Experience shipping cross-functional projects and driving business growth.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.

## Nice to Have
- Higher education.
- Experience with payment rails, money movement systems, and payment provider or bank integrations.
- Experience operating highly available, horizontally scalable, tier-1 systems with SLOs, on-call ownership, error budgets, and resilient databases.
- Familiarity with AI capabilities relevant to engineering teams.

## Compensation
- Targeted annual cash compensation is $183,000–$200,000 in Denver and most remote locations.
- Targeted annual cash compensation is $222,000–$245,000 in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York.
- Employees based in Denver, San Francisco, and New York offices generally work onsite approximately 2–3 days per week or more depending on the role.
- Full-time employees receive benefits and equity (RSUs).

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