# Staff Software Engineer, Invoicing and Billing

**Company**: Gusto
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**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**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/8204403?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff , payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR , so owners can focus on their craft and their customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve.

We're looking for seasoned backend software engineers to join the teams behind Gusto's Invoicing and Billing platform , the billing platform that generates accurate invoices for our customers and integrates with our revenue and accounting systems.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll operate across the full lifecycle of Gusto’s commerce systems: shaping architecture early in the design process, improving and maintaining a high throughput transactional billing platform, building self-service internal features and APIs, and owning their performance long after launch.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

- Design, build, and test Gusto core billing platform – usage jobs, subscriptions, orders, invoice generation, payments, reporting, accounting integrations.

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

- Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world.

- Collaborate with our Product Engineering, Product Management, Data, and Design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily.

- Build products that our customers genuinely love.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

- Successful applicants typically have 8+ years of software development experience.

- Passion for creating scalable, efficient platforms for users.

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

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

- Experience in building large high throughput distributed systems.

- Experience in the Commerce domain: invoicing, commerce, payment processing space revenue recognition.

- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable user impact at scale.

- Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your platform area.

- Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact.

- Experience in, or interest working in, Ruby on Rails.

- Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $163,000–$204,000 in Denver & most remote locations, and $197,000–$247,000 for San Francisco & New York. Stock equity is additional. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

## Skills

### Required
- Ruby on Rails
- Javascript/React
- AI tools
- Commerce domain
- Invoicing
- Payment processing
- Revenue recognition
- Distributed systems

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