3 months ago
Base Salary
$163k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical design and architecture for the Commerce Platform, including product catalog, promotion engine, subscription, and entitlement systems.
- Partner with product management and cross-functional engineering teams to define the technical roadmap and drive platform adoption.
- Drive complex projects from requirements gathering and technical scoping through implementation, rollout, and post-launch iteration.
- Mentor and develop engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on technical coaching.
- Use AI tools to accelerate engineering velocity and establish team-wide AI-augmented development practices.
- Collaborate with marketing and business teams to improve self-service management of products, bundles, promotions, and discounts.
Requirements
- Typically 8+ years of software development experience.
- Deep experience building and operating large-scale backend platform systems, ideally in commerce, billing, subscription management, pricing, or packaging.
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and deliver measurable customer impact at scale.
- Strong command of distributed systems, API design, and service reliability practices, including defining and meeting production SLOs.
- Ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives, influence without authority, and align engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
- Ability to mentor engineers and experience with large-scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and end-to-end product ownership.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs).
- Travel to a Gusto office is required for onboarding.
- Employees based in Denver, San Francisco, New York City, or Scottsdale work from the office approximately 2–3 days per week or more depending on the role.
- Approved non-office work requires a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection.
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About Gusto
Gusto builds cloud software that handles payroll, benefits, HR, and compliance for small businesses in the U.S., sold as a subscription with integrated services. Its platform runs payroll, files taxes, administers health insurance and 401(k)s, and offers tools for onboarding and time tracking. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company says it serves 500,000+ small businesses nationwide.