Business Money Engineering

Gusto•Toronto, NY

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll play a significant role in building new products and scaling existing ones to further evolve Gusto’s product offerings. Your work will focus on improving our customers’ financial tools, helping them spend less time managing their finances and more time focusing on their businesses. You will collaborate with a team of highly skilled professionals, contributing engineering expertise throughout the product development lifecycle—from ideation and design to architecture, development, release, and post-release monitoring and scaling. The Business Money team is on a mission to support small and medium-sized businesses by providing financial tools that help them manage cash flow and run their businesses with confidence. The suite of products we own includes (but is not limited to) Bill Pay, Invoicing, Expenses, Payroll Bridge (Payroll Line of Credit to fund payroll), and a Cash Flow Dashboard that offers a comprehensive view of business finances. Our team is relatively small but operates at a fast, startup-like pace. In less than two years, the team has effectively created a new business vertical called Gusto Money, delivering multiple large scale 0-1 products that help small businesses have more control over their business finances and greater confidence in making financial decisions. As we continue to expand our offerings across business finance, accounting, and cash flow management, this is a great opportunity to apply your skills and help shape the future of Gusto Money.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

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