Engineering Lead, Compliance Platform

Engineering Manager, Compliance Platform

Location: San Francisco/Bay Area

About the Role:

The Compliance Platform Engineering Manager will lead a high-performing team and manage multiple initiatives that drive the effectiveness and scale of Gusto’s compliance platform. This role reports into Gusto’s Application Platform org and plays a key role in driving customer awareness and actions to successfully and with peace of mind run their business compliantly with Gusto.

About the Team:

In this role, you will collaborate closely with Engineering, Design, Marketing, and other cross-functional partners to deliver and scale innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our users and stakeholders. You will deliver direct-to-customer solutions as well as platform APIs in order to grow a successful compliance engine and a holistic compliance-focused user experience. 

If you are a platform and customer-centric builder who thrives on making a substantial impact within a high-growth organization, we would be thrilled to hear from you!

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Lead Gusto’s Compliance Platform engineering team, including the recruitment, hiring, and empowerment of a world-class team
• Work cross-functionally with design leadership and product management leadership to build and drive Gusto’s compliance product vision and strategy
• Own and drive the development of product and core platform in a fast paced, start-up environment
• Provide technical leadership in defining the product and platform solutions.
• Understand customer pain points, devise solutions, and then iterate through prototyping and frequent, successful product launches
• Empower a team of senior engineers and operate in an eng lead capacity (creating alignment, clarity, high morale, driving quick but informed decision making, and helping them get unblocked

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 10+ years software engineering experience
• Managed distributed engineering teams for a minimum of 3 years
• Experience in scaling engineering organizations with a focus on individual and team development
• Ability to balance business needs, development for multiple product lines, and shipping high quality solutions
• Experience in highly cross-functional environments for highly complex products preferred.
• Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand and debate tradeoffs and approaches to building scalable architecture and data models. A high standard, systems-first approach, and strong point of view for the user experience informed by customer empathy, research, data, and customer support insights
• Strong product opinions, including the ability to tell a story about where we’re going that is clear and inspiring, and work with teams to map dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs to increase velocity and make the vision real
• Sharp skills as a builder — even as you’ve become a strategic leader, you are fundamentally a builder who can jump into problem solving with team members when they need the support

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $164,000-$204,000 in Denver, $180,000-$222,000 in most remote locations, and $199,000-$247,000 for San Francisco & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.