
Software Engineering Manager - Risk Gusto, Inc.. About the Role:. In order to enable growth for Gusto and our customers, the Risk Engineering team is responsible for defining best-in-class user experiences in order to mitigate financial and reputation risk. This role will be responsible for leading the team that scales our platform to these products, and builds and maintains a.) bad actor platform capabilities to prevent fraudsters from abusing Gusto’s platform while improving false positive rate and, b.) the credit underwriting and collections experiences to enable faster and greater access to credit while minimizing financial loss. . This role will also be tasked with retaining, building, and leading a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team. They will help the business scale through private and public phases of our company-building journey.. As an Engineering Manager on the Risk Engineering team, you’ll directly empower 5+ 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 experiences that delight customers.. Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:. Help define, build and maintain bad actor platform capabilities to prevent fraudsters from abusing Gusto’s platform while improving false positive rate and experiences across the entire customer journey. Build and maintain the credit underwriting and collections platform to enable faster and greater access to credit while minimizing financial loss. 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:. 6+ years of relevant hands-on programming experience. 2+ years of engineering management experience. Experience on a FinTech (Payments and/or Risk) 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. Please note that travel to Gusto's Denver office for onboarding is required for this position.. If you have any questions regarding this requirement, please share with your recruiter.. Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $160,000/yr to $189,000/yr in Toronto and $199,000/yr to $235,000/yr for San Francisco, New York & Seattle. Stock equity is additional. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above..