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Design, build, test, and scale Gusto’s payments infrastructure and platform. Make architectural decisions focused on fault tolerance, scalability, and modularity; modernize Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React systems; collaborate across engineering, product, design, data science, and operations; deliver software supporting millions of businesses; and mentor fellow engineers.

Lead and develop the Money Movement engineering team responsible for reliable, compliant payment execution across ACH, wires, real-time payments, checks, international, and stablecoin rails. Manage hiring, coaching, technical execution, on-call ownership, SLOs, and error budgets for tier-one systems. Drive migration from the monolith to a standalone Payments Service with clean API contracts, collaborate with product and operational stakeholders, and contribute hands-on through code reviews and programming when needed.

Design, build, test, and scale Gusto’s tax credits products using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/React. Lead complex, multi-quarter engineering projects, address refactoring, performance, and reliability challenges, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, Design, and Platform teams. Mentor engineers, leverage AI tools and emerging AI frameworks, and deliver maintainable products that improve customer experiences at scale.

Lead go-to-market strategy and experimentation for new products, offers, and market motions. Develop segmentation, positioning, pricing, and cross-product narratives; synthesize market and customer insights; coordinate Product, Sales, Growth, Marketing, and Customer Experience teams; establish processes for ambiguous initiatives; define success metrics; and optimize performance through iterative testing. The role focuses on proving product-market fit before handing successful motions to established product marketing teams.

Own Gusto’s agentic coding platform, including autonomous coding workflows, AI code review, orchestration, security posture, sandboxing, permissions, infrastructure contracts, and AI spending controls. Lead and grow a senior engineering team, recruit and calibrate talent, set the product and technical roadmap, manage ambiguity across multiple domains, and advise executive leadership on AI-native software development strategy.

Build and scale Gusto's ML/AI platform: design MLOps solutions, automated pipelines, model development frameworks, deployment, monitoring, CI/CD, and observability; collaborate with ML engineers and apply AI tools and best practices to production ML systems.

Design, build, test, and operate Gusto core customer-facing products across frontend and backend. Own multi-quarter projects, scale Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React systems, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, data, design, and platform teams, and iterate on features that deliver measurable customer impact.

Lead full‑stack development for Gusto's Time and Scheduling product: design, build, test, and iterate frontend and backend systems. Mentor engineers, own multi‑quarter projects, address large‑scale refactors, performance and reliability, and collaborate with product, design, data, and platform teams to deliver customer‑focused features.

Lead UX vision and strategy across Business Money, Consumer Money, Payments, and Risk. Identify cross-team, high-impact opportunities; influence product strategy and OKRs; define AI-first financial UX; do hands-on design and prototyping; mentor designers; and evolve design system patterns to scale cohesive, trustworthy financial experiences.

This role involves leading technical projects across multiple teams, designing scalable systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers, focusing on payroll and tax systems at Gusto.