Principal Software Engineer, Growth

Gusto, Inc. • San Francisco, CA

118d • $215,000 - $295,000

About The Position

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service 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 400,000 businesses nationwide. Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. The Growth org is a product team that focuses on driving revenue growth. We’re accelerating Gusto’s revenue growth by providing a platform for customer acquisition efforts that drive visitors and leads, as well as building out ML-powered recommendation engine for our ACV expansion initiatives. We’re also in an exciting phase of redesigning and expanding our onboarding and activation platform, which will be key in unlocking Gusto’s next phase of growth. We’re looking for a strategic and motivated engineering leader to empower and scale the engineering teams that are building Gusto’s next big thing!

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional software development experience
• Hands-on experience building large scale, complex systems in a wide range of domains
• Web architecture expertise, including observability and performance
• Experience in highly cross-functional environments for highly complex products
• Experience as tech lead, overseeing large initiatives across multiple teams
• Experience in scaling Engineering organizations

Nice To Haves

• Experience building complex revenue systems that spans multiple growth areas: acquisition, expansion, experimentation, marketing and sales automation tools/integrations
• Experience in experimentation and user experience optimization
• Experience working closely with Revenue teams
• Experience building product incorporating ML and AI

Responsibilities

• Define, iterate and execute on initiatives contributing to the Growth’s technical roadmap to drive revenue growth.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to tackle complex and ambiguous problems, translating them into engineering solutions that drive our customer acquisition and ACV expansion platform forward.
• Execute in different horizons based on Growth’s overall goals.
• Engage with all development teams across Gusto to align and drive towards long-term maintainability and stability of our systems.
• Mentor and provide guidance to software engineers, fostering growth and development.
• Actively participate in code reviews and maintain code quality.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $215,000/yr to $252,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $251,000/yr to $295,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York.
• Stock equity is additional.

What This Job Offers

• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees