Description
As a Staff Engineer, you'll play a significant role in building new products and scaling existing ones to further evolve Gusto's product offerings.
Your work will focus on improving customers' financial tools, helping them spend less time managing finances and more time focusing on their businesses.
You will collaborate with a team of highly skilled professionals, contributing engineering expertise throughout the product development lifecycle,from ideation and design to architecture, development, release, and post-release monitoring and scaling.
The Business Money team supports small and medium-sized businesses by providing financial tools to manage cash flow and run their businesses with confidence.
Responsibilities:
- Build products & services and scale the platform that powers business money and accounting experiences at Gusto
- Take ownership of projects, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance
- Adopt the latest best practices for using AI technologies across all aspects of product development
- Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams
- Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation
- Help drive the product development process from concept to launch
Requirements:
- 8+ years of professional software development experience
- Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale and resilient distributed systems and/or software platforms
- Maximizes the use of AI tooling while guiding the team in adopting modern AI practices
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and working with quick iteration cycles
- Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
- Willingness to collaborate across different functions
- An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
- Experience as a technical lead, leading the work of multiple engineers on multi-quarter projects
Nice, but not required:
- Experience in the Fintech industry building scalable backend systems to power financial services and products
- Experience with accounting, bookkeeping, tax, or financial reporting systems and a strong understanding of accounting workflows
- Familiarity with small business accounting or tax domains, including concepts such as ledgers, reconciliations, financial statements, payroll accounting, or tax compliance
- Ruby/Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React, Typescript, AWS
Benefits:
- Competitive base pay
- Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)
- A two-day travel to a Gusto office for onboarding is required for this position.
Salary:
- $163,000–$204,000 in Denver & most remote locations
- $197,000–$247,000 for San Francisco & New York