Gusto · 1 day ago
Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Pay Group Engineering
NYC Metro Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$189K/yr - $236K/yr
12+ years expGusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy by providing services like payroll and HR to over 400,000 small businesses. The Sr. Staff Software Engineer will design and build scalable solutions for Gusto's Payroll system, collaborating across teams to enhance product development and improve system reliability.
Bookkeeping and PayrollEmployee BenefitsEnterprise SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechHuman ResourcesSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Design, build, and test the foundation that supports compliant payroll for millions of people
Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world
Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams
Build the software platform that powers multiple 1st and 3rd party products and serves millions of businesses
Mentor and grow fellow engineers working to create holistic and scalable solutions
Drive the product development process from concept to launch, delivering delightful products that make payroll, taxes, and compliance simple and easy
Improve the productivity and happiness of our teams with the services, tools, and APIs you build
Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation
Own and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for your domain in alignment with team and group-level OKRs
Identify and prioritize long-term investments to improve foundational systems and architecture
Lead improvements to incident response processes, tooling, and culture to enhance system reliability and team effectiveness
Qualification
Required
Successful applicants have at least 12+ years of experience
Experience in designing and developing robust, distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages
Experience influencing and guiding the work of multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products
Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production level code
An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
Enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment
Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code
Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software
Preferred
Experience building products in highly regulated domains is desired, but not required
Experience in one of these domains is preferred: Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance
Experience creating prompt libraries for common patterns
Mentors engineers on effective AI usage
Familiar with current AI tools (LLMs, Cursor, Copilot, Agents) and their shortcomings / benefits
Embeds AI in daily development workflow (scaffolding tests, summarizing docs) to measurably reduce cycle time
Mentors engineers on effective AI usage and helps develop an AI strategy for other engineers
Bonus: Experience with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and React
Benefits
Health insurance
401(k)s
Stock equity
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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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
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