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.
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