Gusto

Head of Engineering - Money GroupSan Francisco, CA;New York, NY

March 21, 2026 Greenhouse
  • Defines and executes the long-term technical strategy for the Money platform, ensuring scalable, resilient, and compliant financial systems across consumer and business products.
  • Drives platform thinking across payments, ledgers, accounting systems, and financial data infrastructure while meeting regulatory, security, and audit requirements.
  • Leads and develops senior engineering leaders, fostering a high-performing, inclusive culture focused on accountability and customer impact
  • Owns org design, capacity planning, and hiring strategy, while establishing clear ownership across product and platform teams
  • Oversees delivery of high-quality financial products and complex cross-functional initiatives (e.g., money movement, tax credits, invoicing, expense management)
  • Improves engineering velocity, operational excellence, and incident response, partnering with Risk, Compliance, and Legal for secure delivery
  • Guides architecture for critical financial systems, including ledgers, payment orchestration, reconciliation, and reporting pipelines
  • Champions best practices in distributed systems, data integrity, and fault tolerance, while driving observability, auditability, and technical modernization
 
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How to Get Hired at Gusto

  • Gusto is a private SMB payroll, benefits, and HR platform with about 3,500 employees, ~$10B last-known valuation, and persistent IPO speculation but no committed timeline.
  • Apply through boards.greenhouse.io/gusto; the ATS is Greenhouse and standard PDF resumes parse reliably.
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