Engineering Manager

Guideline is looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our Payroll team.

This team is responsible for building and maintaining robust API integrations with 3rd party payroll systems, ensuring seamless data flow and a smooth experience for our customers. You will play a critical role in scaling our platform and expanding our network of payroll partners.

As a manager within Guideline’s engineering organization, you'll work closely with Product and Design to establish roadmaps, provide mentorship and growth opportunities to your engineers, and be responsible for the impact of your teams. We're a fast growing company and successful management means getting hands on with code and design reviews and playing a part in the continued development of our engineering team. 

• Lead and manage a team of engineers focused on developing and maintaining 3rd party API payroll integrations.
• Define the technical roadmap and strategy for payroll integrations, aligning with overall product and business goals.
• Collaborate with 3rd parties around integrations, including ownership of engineering ops regarding bugs, product needs, and general support.
• Drive technical decision-making and partner with the rest of the organization to define processes and ownership responsibilities.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices, including code reviews, testing, refactoring, and documentation to maintain high-quality codebases.
• Empower teams to provide high quality software by removing barriers and unblocking engineers in the team.
• Support your engineers through empathetic leadership, mentorship, transparency, and accountability.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years of experience managing a team of 5 or more engineers.
• Extensive experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems, with a deep understanding of system architecture.
• Experience with mission-critical backend systems, including performance optimization, fault tolerance, and horizontal scaling.
• Proficiency in at least one server-side language (e.g., Ruby, Python, Node.js).
• Strong understanding of relational databases, caching, messaging queues, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of API integration patterns, RESTful services, and data exchange formats (e.g., JSON, XML).
• Confident in spending up to 20-25% of your time contributing by writing code alongside your team as your time and priorities permit.
• Competent in setting expectations, giving transparent feedback, and creating a culture of psychological safety.
• Background in fintech, regtech, or HR-tech is a plus.

We understand that not everyone will be an expert in all of these areas on Day One. We value people and will consider someone with the fundamentals who wants to develop their skills.

Everyone should have a simple, affordable way to save for retirement. At Guideline, our plans are low cost and highly automated. This makes it easy for companies to offer a valuable benefit—and easy for people to invest in their financial future with confidence.

At Guideline, we believe compensation should be fair and equitable. We take a data-driven approach to set our compensation bands; the successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and work location. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Please speak with a recruiter for additional information regarding our tier locations.

• Metro+:
  The base salary range for this position is $183,500 - $271,500 annually.
• Metro:
  The base salary range for this position is $171,500 - $256,000 annually.
• National: 
  The base salary range for this position is $158,000 - $239,000 annually.

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible to receive equity in the form of Incentive Stock Options (ISOs). 

At Guideline, base salary is just one component of the overall Total Rewards package offered to employees.  All employees are offered comprehensive benefits and perks to help support you and your family.

• Health
  • Opt-out credit for waiving coverage
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance — We offer multiple plan options with varying company premium contributions
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
• Company paid disability and life insurance
• Optional Voluntary life insurance
• Mental health benefit navigation with Rula for employees and dependents
• Parental Leave
• Paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Generous Time Off
• Flexible time off in addition to company holidays — We observe the NYSE Holiday Calendar
• 401(k) Plan
• We use our own platform and contribute 100% of employee contributions up to 5%
• Other Benefits
• 1-month paid Sabbatical after 5 years of employment
• Annual learning and development stipend — We reimburse approved professional development expenses, up to $750 per employee per year

Guideline provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  Additionally, Guideline participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. 

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and contact us at [email protected].

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