Engineering Manager, Tax Payments and Filings

About Gusto

At Gusto were on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stufflike payroll health insurance 401(k)s and HRso owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver San Francisco and New York were proud to support more than 400000 small businesses across the country and were building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers we serve. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.

About the Role:

Were looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Tax Payments and Filings team. Youll manage a team of engineers responsible for building adaptable internal tooling systems to organize legal compliance rules and apply those rules to our internal engine responsible for generating and processing tax payments and filings.

Payroll is the beating heart of Gustos business and Tax is responsible for keeping that beating heart compliant. Lead a team thats critical to our long-term success and engage with one of the most surprisingly fun domains of your career!

About the Team:

Gustos Tax Payments and Filings team exists for the sake of our customers peace of mind. Every year we move billions of dollars in tax payments and file millions of tax filings with the thousands of state local and federal tax agencies where our customers are located. As compliance rules shift and change over time so must our systems. Correctness is essential: if we dont do our jobs correctly our customers pay - literally.

Heres what youll do day-to-day:

• Build and foster an inclusive collaborative and impact-oriented culture
• Coach mentor and sustain a high-performing team of engineers including regular 1:1s and performance coaching
• Maintain cross-functional relationships with key partners in Product Data Tax Operations Tax Filings Compliance and with engineering and product leaders on other Tax teams
• Help set technical direction on the team ensuring that we are meeting our compliance commitments as well as advocating for work to reduce the operational overhead of adapting to changing tax legislation
• Advocate for and build systems that enable us to hold our correctness bar incredibly high while also enabling iteration experimentation and speed
• Work to understand the context-rich Tax domain to be able to weigh in on the teams technical decisions

Heres what were looking for:

• 8 years of software engineering experience including experience with backend systems.
• 2-4 years of engineering management experience including coaching mentoring and sustaining high-performing teams
• Deep technical expertise in designing building scaling and maintaining high-volume mission-critical systems ideally in a product area with a regulatory (or similar) surface area.
• Expertise in ensuring operational excellence for critical production systems including setting and meeting SLOs robust incident management and navigating complex compliance landscapes.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills - youre comfortable navigating complexity and bringing together teams across orgs.
• A strong service mindset - you lead with curiosity care deeply about people and empower those around you.
• Bonus but a big one: experience with financial and/or other regulatory systems (like Tax!)

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $163000/yr to $204000/yr in Denver (plus most remote locations) and $198000/yr to $247000/yr for San Francisco & New York. 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.

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 Gustos 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. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees.

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 its 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.

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