Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy, providing essential services like payroll and HR. The Staff Engineer role focuses on building and scaling financial tools to help small businesses manage their finances effectively.
Responsibilities
- Build products & services and scale the platform that powers business money and accounting experiences at Gusto
- Take ownership of projects, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance
- Adopt the latest best practices for using AI technologies across all aspects of product development
- Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams
- Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation
- Help drive the product development process from concept to launch
Skills
- 8+ years of professional software development experience
- Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale and resilient distributed systems and/or software platforms
- Maximizes the use of AI tooling while guiding the team in adopting modern AI practices
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and working with quick iteration cycles
- Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
- Willingness to collaborate across different functions
- An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
- Experience as a technical lead, leading the work of multiple engineers on multi-quarter projects
- Experience in the Fintech industry building scalable backend systems to power financial services and products
- Experience with accounting, bookkeeping, tax, or financial reporting systems and a strong understanding of accounting workflows
- Familiarity with small business accounting or tax domains, including concepts such as ledgers, reconciliations, financial statements, payroll accounting, or tax compliance
- Ruby/Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React, Typescript, AWS
Benefits
- All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success.
- Stock equity is additional.
- Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role).
- When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.
- Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
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