Sr. Staff Payroll Services Engineer

About the Role:

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 Payroll system. As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level you’ll be guiding projects end-to-end 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. If you’re interested in building elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy join us!

About the Team:

Payroll is the beating heart of Gusto’s business. Payroll Services teams are responsible for the product ops and service components Gusto uses to onboard customers process payrolls calculate taxes & deductions pay and file with tax agencies and maintain compliance on behalf of the customers. The domain is highly complex and offers the opportunity to engage in system design that simplifies this for customers both internal and external.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• 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

Here’s what we're looking for:

• Successful applicants typically have at least 12 years of experience

• Experience influencing/guiding the work of multiple teams on projects

• 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 in one of these would be nice but not required:

  • HR Payroll Payments Fintech or Tax products

  • AI/Machine Learning

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $193000/yr to $231000/yr in Denver & most remote locations and $228000/yr to $272000/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.