Engineering Manager, Payments Infrastructure & Rails

Joinhorizon; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 183,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Gusto is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Money Movement team. You will empower engineers, grow the team, and own the end‑to‑end money movement across multiple rails, ensuring reliability and cost effectiveness.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, Data, Operations, Accounting, and Treasury to de‑risk payments and expand capabilities. The role requires 8+ years of software experience and 3+ years of leadership, with a focus on payments infrastructure, cloud platforms, and scalable

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands‑on software development experience.
• 3+ years in engineering management or equivalent leadership role.
• Experience leading a Payments platform team and scaling rails.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Money Movement team to expand payment rails across US and internationally.
• Drive technical guidance and execution for next‑gen payment rails and money movement capabilities.
• Own end‑to‑end money movement across rails with on‑call ownership and SLOs.

Skills

Engineering management

Payments platform

Kafka

DynamoDB

Redis

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Code review

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Kafka

DynamoDB

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kubernetes

Ruby on Rails

Job description

Gusto is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Money Movement team. You will empower engineers, grow the team, and own the end‑to‑end money movement across multiple rails, ensuring reliability and cost effectiveness.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, Data, Operations, Accounting, and Treasury to de‑risk payments and expand capabilities. The role requires 8+ years of software experience and 3+ years of leadership, with a focus on payments infrastructure, cloud platforms, and scalable