Senior Staff Software Engineer Payments
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About Gusto
Gusto is a modern online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of fullservice payroll Gusto offers health insurance 401(k)s expert HR and team management tools. Today Gusto offices in Denver San Francisco and New York serve more than 400000 businesses nationwide.
Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life and it starts right here at Gusto. Thats why were committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.
About the Role:
Gusto moves hundreds of billions of dollars per year. The Sr. Staff Engineer will be part of the Payments team and will be responsible for a. building new payments and money movement capabilities across US and International and b. (re)architecting our payments platform to scale for the future. As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level youll be guiding projects endtoend by influencing initial feature specs understanding how to take existing systems closer to desired end states executing on projects and maintaining code that powers core experiences. Youll collaborate with a talented crossfunctional team of Product Design and Data partners focusing on building payments experiences that delight customers. If youre interested in building elegant software with farreaching effects in our modern economy join us!
About the Team
This role is part of the Payments team at Gusto that ensures that our 400000 small and medium businesses and millions of their employees are getting paid on time every time. You will be developing our payments systems that are foundational to the payment solutions offered by Gusto.
Heres what youll do daytoday:
- Function as a Technical Lead for a team in Payments helping us keep engineers unblocked and deliver highquality work supporting our longterm goals
- Design build and test the foundation that supports payments 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 crossfunctional teams
- Mentor and grow fellow engineersworking 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
Heres what were looking for:
- 12 years of expertise in Payments platforms at scaled FinTech companies: Experience successfully building scalable and global payments platforms. In addition this individual should have collaborated with payments partners across the industry (as part of implementation of their technical work or for influencing). Experience with payment regulations including money service licensing and requirements to achieve and maintain SOC2 compliance is a plus. Knowledge of payments unit economics and how they work is also a plus.
- Able to build maintainable structured welldocumented code
- Strong knowledge of data structures data modeling and system design
- Experience working on platform products which are depended upon throughout the company
- Experience engineering designing building and supporting large scale missioncritical systems in production
- An aptitude in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex problems communicating technical complexity and facilitating informed tradeoffs to major stakeholders
- Experience operationalizing and scaling large interconnected production systems
- Enthusiasm for a collaborative testdriven environment
Please note that travel to Gustos Denver office for onboarding is required for this position.If you have any questions regarding this requirement please share with your recruiter.
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $191000/yr to $225000/yr in Denver & most remote locations and $225000/yr to $265000/yr for San Francisco Seattle & 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.
Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver San Francisco and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 23 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles Gustos subsidiary whose physical office is in Scottsdale.
Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.
When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office a secure reliable and consistent internet connection is required.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds not just because its the right thing to do but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses you will find a home at Gusto.
Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race color religion national origin age sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) marital status ancestry physical or mental disability genetic information veteran status gender identity or expression sexual orientation or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
