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Gusto

Principal Software Engineer, Money Group

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about 21 hours ago
Denver, CO, USA +2 more
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Base Salary

$214k - $260k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a Technical Lead across multiple teams in the Money Group.
  • Define the north-star architectural vision for the Money Group.
  • Architect the convergence of Gusto's People Stack and Finance Stack.
  • Lead service migration from a Ruby-on-Rails monolith to a service-oriented architecture.
  • Conduct technical due diligence on codebases and engineering teams.
  • Manage a complex partner ecosystem.
  • Build prototypes and proofs-of-concept to de-risk new ideas.
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, and Operations.
  • Drive AI-native architecture decisions.
  • Act as a technical consultant across all Money sub-teams.
  • Set the bar for technical excellence through code and design reviews.
  • Mentor fellow engineers and contribute to team growth.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, particularly in payments or fintech.
  • Proven track record of engineering and operating large production systems.
  • Experience setting long-term technical vision and driving architectural transformations.
  • Ability to influence technical direction and product strategy across multiple teams.
  • Experience navigating core infrastructure decisions in fintech.
  • Strong communication skills for conveying technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
  • A history of raising the technical bar through quality and best practices.
  • Flexibility to fill various roles as needed within the group.
  • Experience in complex, highly regulated domains.

Tech Stack

Ruby on Rails

Categories

AI & MLBackendData EngineeringDevOpsFull Stack