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.