Senior Staff Software Engineer, Gusto Embedded Payroll

About the Role:

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Embedded Payroll team, you'll be a key technical leader responsible for influencing the team and broader organization as we build and scale our product. You'll do this through a combination of hands-on development in our complex Ruby on Rails codebase and guiding others to deliver a high quality platform experience.

About the Team:

Gusto Embedded Payroll is a platform that allows developers to embed payroll directly into their own software using our APIs. We've taken Gusto's robust payroll infrastructure and made it available to third-party developers. Our vision is to enable anyone to build the best payroll product for their end customers - powering payroll for small and medium businesses across a variety of industries, from vertical SaaS to fintech and neobanks.

Here's what you'll do day-to-day:

• Identify and solve high-impact problems involving technical and organizational complexity that requires understanding and coordination across multiple domains.
• Engage directly with our developer-customers to deliver a remarkable payroll product.
• Ship code. Clean, tested, and performant.
• Level up the craft of software engineering across the organization by providing technical guidance and mentoring.
• Inform and maintain best practices for reliability and observability for the team.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues.

Here's what we're looking for:

• 12+ years of professional software development experience with a track record of driving impact at scale.
• Proven ability to take ownership of company-wide engineering initiatives and contribute to scaling engineering organizations.
• Ruby and Rails expert.
• Deep experience working across large, complex codebases and comfort operating at multiple layers of abstraction.
• Demonstrated success in designing and building platforms, services, and APIs with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
• History of mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, and guiding teams through ambiguous problems and competing priorities..
• Ability to connect technical decisions to business priorities, align teams around the right goals, and effectively communicate tradeoffs and technical needs to business stakeholders.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $200,000-$230,000 /yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $230,000-$270,000 /yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.