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Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.
Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.
We are looking for an engineering leader and manager for our Product Infrastructure Ruby team, responsible for continued improvement of the application architecture in some of our most important backend applications. This team designs, develops, tests, and maintains tools that make our important applications run smoothly and developers working on them productive. We help pave the way to simply starting up new applications that solve for gusto’s needs. This is crucial to Gusto’s continued growth as a product development organization and company.
Here’s what you’ll do day to day:
- Lead and grow a team of engineering talent and diversify it over time
- This role is hands-on, code-writing leadership role that will contribute to their team via direct work on our applications as well as supporting work on impact-analysis and long-term strategy; the balance of this with team management responsibilities will change as the team continues to grow
- Build and foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance culture
- Work to improve the technical setup and architecture of crucial applications in Gusto’s portfolio
- Collaborate with our other technical infrastructure engineering teams, product development teams and also data science, operations, product management and design teams to lead and own developing end to end product experiences for complex customer needs from initial planning, execution, to final delivery
- Work closely with Leadership to help set priorities for both short term and long term roadmaps and to create accountability for progress on ongoing work
Here’s what we’re looking for:
- 5+ years of engineering people leadership experience
- 12+ years of hands-on programming experience
- Experience with working on Ruby, Rails in the context of large applications
- Experience in empowering and nurturing technical teams of 4-10 engineers
- Experience in managing and resolving complex product development issues
- Experience in leading large scope technical projects and driving engineering excellence
- Self-driven mindset, and the ability to work in the in-between space of leading and supporting people and driving direct, hands-on impact
- Passionate about creating memorable experiences for customers
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $193,000-$231,000/yr in Denver, Chicago, and Atlanta, $211,000-$251,000/year in Los Angeles and Seattle, and $228,000-$272,000/yr for 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.
Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.
Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.
When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.
Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you require assistance in filling out a Gusto job application, please reach out to [email protected].
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