Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments and Risk
About The Position
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 Payments and Risk platforms. As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level, you’ll be guiding projects end-to-end by driving large technical architectural decisions (focusing on scale and modularity), 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!
Requirements
- Successful applicants have at least 12+ years of experience and the enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment
- Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software as well as designing and developing robust, distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages
- Experience influencing and guiding the work of multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products
- Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production level code that is maintainable, structured, and well-documented
- An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
- Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
- Experience in one of these domains is highly preferred: Payments and/or Risk
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and React
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and test the infrastructure that enables our Payments teams and Risk policy and experience teams to efficiently build unique, custom tailored experiences for any existing or emerging products Gusto offers its customers
- 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, 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
