The People OS group is Gusto’s product platform team - we are unlocking shared frameworks that can be leveraged by product teams across the Gusto platform.. This business unit will be one of the key contributors to Gusto’s next phase of growth and will support revenue in the hundreds of millions over the next several years. We’re looking for a strategic and inspirational engineering leader to empower and scale the engineering teams that are building Gusto’s next big thing.
If you’re interested in building elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy, join us!
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:
- Lead and contribute to the development of cutting-edge projects within the People OS ecosystem, with a particular focus on access control, workflows, notifications, reporting, user onboarding.
- Identify areas for process improvement and take the initiative to enhance engineering processes and structures.
- Mentor and provide guidance to software engineers, fostering their growth and development.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle complex and ambiguous problems, translating them into engineering solutions that drive our People OS platform forward.
- Work with developers, architects, and tech leads to arrive at solutions that improve the platform experience and ensure platform health and adoption
- Engage with development teams across the company to evangelize platform capabilities, best practices, and adoption
- Continuously stay up-to-date with advancements in AI and Machine Learning, applying this knowledge to our projects.
- Take ownership of projects, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance.
- Actively participate in code reviews, maintain code quality, and contribute to thorough testing.
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to understand project requirements and deliver innovative solutions.
Here’s what we're looking for:
- 15+ years of professional software development experience
- Experience in scaling engineering organizations with a focus on individual and team development
- Web & Mobile app development expertise, including release management, observability, and performance
- Experience as a technical lead, overseeing the work of multiple teams on projects
- Experience architecting, building and testing large-scale production level code
- Proven experience in Generative AI, Machine Learning, LLM is nice to have. You should have a track record of successfully applying techniques to real-world projects.
- An aptitude for tackling complex and ambiguous problems, distilling them into effective engineering solutions that drive innovation.
- Experience in highly cross-functional environments for highly complex products preferred.
- Experience in mobile, growth, core infrastructure (payments, fraud, credit) and user experience optimization preferred.
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $260,000-$299,000 in the San Francisco Bay area. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
