Hybrid Senior Staff Software Engineer, Pay Group Engineering

at Gusto

• Job title: Senior Staff Software Engineer, Pay Group Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $189,000 - $236,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, React, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer guiding projects for core platform capabilities at Gusto. Focused on improving systems for extensibility, scalability, and payroll compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test the foundation that supports compliant payroll for millions of people
• 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, Compliance, 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
• Drive the product development process from concept to launch, delivering delightful products that make payroll, taxes, and compliance simple and easy
• Improve the productivity and happiness of our teams with the services, tools, and APIs you build.
• Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation
• Own and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for your domain in alignment with team and group-level OKRs
• Identify and prioritize long-term investments to improve foundational systems and architecture
• Lead improvements to incident response processes, tooling, and culture to enhance system reliability and team effectiveness

Requirements

• Successful applicants have at least 12+ years of experience
• Experience in 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
• An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
• Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
• Enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment
• Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code
• Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software
• Experience building products in highly regulated domains is desired, but not required
• Bonus: Experience with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and React

Benefits

• Stock equity is additional.
• Travel to Gusto’s Denver office for onboarding is required for this position.
• Employees expected to work from office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week.