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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineering Manager Payments - **Company:** Top Job - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $183,000.0 - $200,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Computer Programming, Databases, Computer Engineering, Data Stores, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Payment Systems, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Model View Controller (MVC), Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Ruby on Rails, Redis, Software Engineering, Caching, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Api Management - **Published:** November 7, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25197_f5564b0e4681436910f7ad1db201d210-2325436229 ## About the Role * 8+ years of relevant hands-on programming experience * 3+ years of engineering management experience * Experience managing a Payments platform 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. * Experience with growing and managing talent with varied experience level * Comfortable navigating a complex and ambiguous problem space, and asking for help and clarification when needed * Willingness to debate and commit * Experience in shipping a 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 * Stays informed about AI capabilities relevant to engineering teams and thoughtfully incorporates them into workflows, tooling, and decision-making. highly available, horizontally scalable systems, and continuing to reduce blast radius and improve the resilience of the databases we already operate., * 6+ years of software engineering experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure systems, with deep hands-on expertise in streaming infrastructure (Kafka) and/or non-relational datastores (DynamoDB or similar) in production at scale * Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals-partitioning, replication, consistency models, and failure modes-and proven experience coordinating migrations or topology changes in production with minimal disruption * Experience running production infrastructure in the cloud, including caching systems like Redis/ValKey and streaming platforms like Kafka, with a track record of driving infrastructure optimization at scale * Strong communication skills, with the ability to simplify technical complexity and collaborate on technical direction across teams * Curiosity and ability to operate in an AI-native environment, using AI tooling to drive improvements in query optimization, performance evaluation, and infrastructure automation * Bonus: Experience with self-hosted distributed databases on Kubernetes (e.g., TiDB, CockroachDB, Vitess, or Citus), horizontal sharding, or service/vertical extraction from monolithic architectures * Bonus: Experience working with Ruby on Rails or similar MVC frameworks at scale ## Description Money Movement (MM) is a core Payments Engineering team responsible for actually moving money at Gusto - reliably, on time, and at scale. The team owns Gusto's payment rails and the integrations behind them: ACH, wires, real-time payments, checks, and international and stablecoin rails through partners. MM owns the connections to partner banks and payment providers, the APIs that initiate credits and debits, the ingestion of incoming bank data, and the routing logic that selects the most efficient rail for each payment based on speed, cost, geography, currency, and regulatory requirements. The team also builds the operational tooling that Payment Operations depends on to stop, reverse, verify, and investigate payments. MM sits within the Payments org alongside the Financial Data and Payment Profile team. Where that team owns the source of truth for payment data and the customer-facing payment method experience, MM owns execution - the systems that hand money to a bank or partner and track it to settlement. The team operates tier-1 systems with clear reliability ownership, on-call responsibility, and defined SLOs measured across every rail, and is in the middle of extracting money movement out of the monolith into a standalone Payments Service with a rails-factory architecture and stable API contracts for upstream product teams. As an Engineering Manager on the Money Movement team, you'll directly empower a team of engineers, supporting them in their continued growth and success. You'll collaborate with a talented cross-functional team of Product, Design, and Data partners, along with Payment Operations, Accounting, and Treasury, focusing on payments infrastructure that customers can trust with their payroll., * Develop the engineering team across the Money Movement domain to help build the long term vision of the payments team at Gusto. The leader will expand Gusto's payment rails across the US and internationally while ensuring that our 500K+ businesses and millions of their employees are getting paid on time, every time. * Lead, empower and coach a team across engineering for payments to i) drive technical guidance and consistent execution of the next generation of payment rails and money movement capabilities that enable Gusto to expand its product offerings; ii) recruit, hire, and onboard new engineering team members; iii) identify and address any roadblocks or challenges faced by the team; and iv) deliver scaled engineering solutions on time. * Own reliable, efficient, compliant and cost effective end-to-end money movement across every rail - including on-call ownership, SLOs, and error budgets for tier-1 payment systems - and work cross-functionally with Payment Operations, Accounting and Treasury to de-risk any payments related issues with bank and provider partners. * Drive the modularization of payments: lead the extraction of money movement into a standalone service with clean API contracts, so new rails can be added once at the platform layer instead of being re-integrated by every product team. * Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence within the team. In addition, collaborate and communicate with senior management and stakeholders to develop and execute long-term strategies for Gusto's engineering department * Develop and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams, including product, design, data science, and the upstream product teams that depend on payments, to make tradeoffs that build customer trust, * Build the tooling and platform that let engineering teams provision and access new datastores, and evaluate and pilot highly available, horizontally scalable storage systems to meet Gusto's growing needs * Take ownership of Kafka, from capacity planning and partitioning through performance tuning and reliability at scale, and help stand up and operate new non-relational datastores like DynamoDB * Coordinate migrations and topology changes across the datastore platform (MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Kafka) with minimal disruption to production * Drive efficiency and reliability improvements across the platform through query and consumer optimization, caching strategies, and workload management, backed by strong automation and standards for data consistency, integrity, and security * Participate in on-call and drive long-term, sustainable reductions in operational burden * Partner with product engineering teams to enable rapid, reliable product development, and share knowledge to grow the team's collective operating expertise