Senior Engineering Manager - Risk
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About the Team and Role
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 a Senior 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.
Key Responsibilities
Develop the Engineering team to help scale Risk policies and experiences tailored to unique emerging products across Gusto.
Collaborate with Product, Data Science, Design, Operations, and external stakeholder partners who own existing and new emerging products to decide on how to apply existing and/or define new policies around Fraud prevention, Underwriting, and Collections.
Build and scale the infrastructure of our existing customer-facing experiences to minimize developmental investment required for launching functionality that help our businesses and individuals better manage their finances. Requires a strong understanding of the Risk domain in order to make tradeoffs that build customer trust.
Lead, empower and coach a team across engineering to i.) drive technical guidance and consistent execution of the next generation of payments 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.
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.
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:
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:
10+ years of relevant hands-on programming experience
4+ years of engineering management experience
Experience on a 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
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $191,000-$225,000 in Denver & most remote locations, and $225,000-$265,000 in San Francisco and New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
About the job
Senior Engineering Manager - Risk
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Development jobs
About the Team and Role
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 a Senior 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.
Key Responsibilities
Develop the Engineering team to help scale Risk policies and experiences tailored to unique emerging products across Gusto.
Collaborate with Product, Data Science, Design, Operations, and external stakeholder partners who own existing and new emerging products to decide on how to apply existing and/or define new policies around Fraud prevention, Underwriting, and Collections.
Build and scale the infrastructure of our existing customer-facing experiences to minimize developmental investment required for launching functionality that help our businesses and individuals better manage their finances. Requires a strong understanding of the Risk domain in order to make tradeoffs that build customer trust.
Lead, empower and coach a team across engineering to i.) drive technical guidance and consistent execution of the next generation of payments 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.
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.
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:
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:
10+ years of relevant hands-on programming experience
4+ years of engineering management experience
Experience on a 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
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $191,000-$225,000 in Denver & most remote locations, and $225,000-$265,000 in San Francisco and New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.