# Staff Software Engineer, Financial Infrastructure

**Company**: Gusto
**Location**: Burlingame, CA - Hybrid; Denver, CO - Hybrid; New York, NY - Hybrid; San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $163,000–$204,000 in Denver & most remote locations, and $197,000–$247,000 for San Francisco & New York
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/8205624?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_b00d7450-46e

## Description

At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy.

You'll be a key engineer focused on building and owning the systems that move money and assets through Gusto Retirement.

## Responsibilities

- Design, build, and ship services and APIs for money movement and financial integrations

- Work on payments, settlements, reconciliation, and corrections involving real customer funds

- Build and support critical workflows like payroll integration, KYB/KYC, 401k loans, billing and invoicing, and IRA

- Partner with product, compliance, and operations to scope work and deliver production-ready solutions

- Debug production issues and improve reliability, observability, and operational tooling

- Collaborate with other engineering teams to integrate with shared systems and platforms

- Mentor other engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems out there in very complex domains and at a large scale

- Write clear, reliable, well-tested code that ships quickly and scales well

- Build a product that our customers genuinely love

## Requirements

- 8+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms

- Strong experience with services, APIs, and data-heavy workflows

- Experience working on financial systems, payments, or other high-correctness domains (or the ability to ramp quickly)

- Comfortable owning systems end-to-end, including production support and operational work

- Experience working closely with PMs and cross-functional partners to deliver scoped work

- Pragmatic, execution-focused approach to engineering

- Clear communicator and collaborative teammate

- Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact

- Experience with Ruby on Rails (or a comparable backend framework)

## Bonus Points

- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities

- Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks, applying and sharing best practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely across teams

## Skills

### Required
- Ruby on Rails
- services
- APIs
- data-heavy workflows
- financial systems
- payments

### Nice to have
- AI tools
- emerging AI frameworks

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