Software Engineering Manager, Payments

Gusto • Denver, CO;San Francisco, CA;New York, NY;Seattle, WA • 1m ago

Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs

### Why this Role is Featured on The SaaS Jobs

Payments and financial data are foundational layers in many SaaS products, and this Engineering Manager role sits directly on those systems. The scope spans both ledger level source of truth work and customer facing payment profile experiences, which is a meaningful intersection in SaaS where reliability, auditability, and product usability meet. With explicit ownership of reconciliation, reporting, and audit support, the team’s remit reflects the kind of operationally critical platform surface area that mature SaaS businesses depend on.

For a SaaS engineering leader, the long-term value here is exposure to end to end money movement workflows and the engineering practices that keep them dependable, including SLOs and on call ownership. The role also signals regular cross functional execution with Product, Design, Data, and operational partners, which is core to delivering platform capabilities that translate into product outcomes. Managing systems that evolve toward new payout methods can build reusable skills in incremental modernization and risk managed delivery.

The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.

Job Description

About the Role:

As an Engineering Manager on the FDPP team, you’ll directly empower a team of engineers, supporting them in their continued growth and success. You’ll collaborate with a talented cross-functional team of Product, Design, and Data partners, focusing on building payments experiences that delight customers.

About the Team:

Financial Data & Payment Profile (FDPP) is a core Payments Engineering team responsible for ensuring money at Gusto is accurate, auditable, and easy to manage. The team owns financial data systems that track customer funds end-to-end, including reconciliation, customer cash and ledgering, financial reporting, and audit support, working closely with Platform Ops, Accounting, and Data Science. FDPP also owns the Payment Profile experience—how employers and workers create and manage payment methods, split paychecks, and interact with payouts across employees, contractors, and international contractors.

FDPP sits within Payments org alongside the Money Movement team. FDPP owns the source of truth for payment data and the user-facing payment method experience. The team operates critical systems with clear reliability ownership, on-call responsibility, and defined SLOs, and is evolving toward supporting new payout methods and more unified payment experiences.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

Build and foster an inclusive, collaborative and high performance culture
Conduct regular 1:1s with your team members to support their continued growth and learning
Collaborate with our product management and design teams to define problem spaces and lead technical projects from initial planning, execution, to final delivery
Partner with Product, Design, Data and others within and outside your team
Help build and manage team processes and create a culture that enables the team to do its best work
Provide and receive mentorship and peer support

Here’s what we're looking for:

8+ years of relevant hands-on programming experience
4+ years of engineering management experience
Experience on managing a Payments related team
Comfortable guiding the team strategically as well as contributing hands on where it’s needed to support the team. Expect to be reviewing code, and coding where it’s needed to move the team along.
Comfortable navigating a complex and ambiguous problem space, and asking for help and clarification when needed
Experience in negotiating cross-functional projects and driving business growth
A desire to grow and learn on the job
Completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline; higher education preferred
Stays informed about AI capabilities relevant to engineering teams and thoughtfully incorporates them into workflows, tooling, and decision-making.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $163,000 to $204,000 in Denver & most remote locations, and $197,000 to $247,000 in San Francisco and New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

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