Gusto · 1 week ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer, API Infrastructure
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $230K/yr
12+ years expGusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy by providing essential services like payroll and HR. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Embedded Payroll team, you will lead technical initiatives and engage with developer-customers to enhance the payroll product through hands-on development and mentoring.
Bookkeeping and PayrollEmployee BenefitsEnterprise SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechHuman ResourcesSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Identify and solve high-impact problems involving technical and organizational complexity that requires understanding and coordination across multiple domains
Engage directly with our developer-customers to deliver a remarkable payroll product
Influence organization-wide AI best practices for platform and API engineering, ensuring solutions are secure, compliant, and aligned with business priorities
Partner with developer-customers to create AI-assisted onboarding, documentation, and sample apps that accelerate time-to-first-payroll
Ship code. Clean, tested, and performant
Level up the craft of software engineering across the organization by providing technical guidance and mentoring
Inform and maintain best practices for reliability and observability for the team
Troubleshoot and resolve production issues
Qualification
Required
12+ years of professional software development experience with a track record of driving impact at scale
Proven ability to take ownership of company-wide engineering initiatives and contribute to scaling engineering organizations
Deep experience working across large, complex codebases and comfort operating at multiple layers of abstraction
Demonstrated success in designing and building platforms, services, and APIs with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance
Curiosity in an AI-native engineering environment. Leveraging intelligence, automation, and experimentation to design, ship, and operate reliable, partner-facing payroll APIs at scale
History of mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, and guiding teams through ambiguous problems and competing priorities
Ability to connect technical decisions to business priorities, align teams around the right goals, and effectively communicate tradeoffs and technical needs to business stakeholders
Benefits
Health insurance
401(k)
Company
Gusto
Gusto is an HR and payroll platform that simplifies complex tasks, empowering businesses to focus on what matters most.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2023 (19)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$746.1MKey Investors
Friends & Family CapitalT. Rowe PriceAkkadian Ventures
2023-01-28Series Unknown
2022-05-12Series E· $55M
2021-08-10Series E· $175M
Leadership Team
Josh Reeves
Head of Gusto (CEO) and Co-Founder. Building Gusto for the Long Term.
Edward Kim
Co-founder and Head of Technology
Recent News
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