Job Description
The Payroll Delivery Engineering People Engineering (PE) leader plays a pivotal role in advancing Gusto’s mission — ensuring every employee is paid accurately, on time, and in full compliance with thousands of regulations. As Gusto continues to scale, Payroll Delivery is evolving from a set of product workflows into a resilient, high-scale financial platform that powers every payment made through Gusto and its partners. As the PE for Payroll Delivery, you’ll lead and empower a team of engineers responsible for the systems that keep Gusto’s payroll engine running seamlessly. You’ll partner with engineering, product, and operations leaders across Pay Group to shape the vision, strategy, and execution for one of Gusto’s most critical domains. This role blends hands-on technical leadership, systems architecture, and people development. You’ll modernize legacy systems, improve reliability and scalability, and enable the next generation of payroll experiences. You’ll create an environment where engineers thrive, bring clarity to complex challenges, and ensure the team delivers with both speed and excellence. This is a rare opportunity to lead at the center of Gusto’s mission — building the foundation that ensures millions of employees get paid correctly, while defining how Gusto delivers payroll at scale.
About Gusto
Gusto handles the hard stuff—like payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR—so owners can focus on their craft and customers.