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.
We're hiring seasoned engineers to join our teams that work on core platform capabilities, improving our existing systems for extensibility and scalability, and building the future of Gusto's Payments platform.
As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level, you'll be guiding projects end-to-end by driving large technical architectural decisions, understanding how to take existing systems closer to desired end states, executing on projects, and maintaining code that powers core experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and test the infrastructure that enables our Payments teams and Risk policy and experience teams to efficiently build unique, custom tailored experiences for any existing or emerging products Gusto offers its customers
- 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, 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
Requirements:
- Successful applicants have at least 7+ years of experience and the enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment
- Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software as well as 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 that is maintainable, structured, and well-documented
- An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
- Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
- Experience in one of these domains is highly preferred: Payments and/or Accounting systems
Benefits:
- Competitive base pay
- Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)
Salary: $183,000-$200,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $222,000-$245,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York