6 hours ago
Base Salary
$163k - $247k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship services and APIs for money movement and financial integrations.
- Work on payments, settlements, reconciliation, and corrections involving customer funds.
- Build and support payroll integration, KYB/KYC, 401(k) loan, billing, invoicing, and IRA workflows.
- Partner with product, compliance, and operations to deliver production-ready solutions.
- Debug production issues and improve reliability, observability, and operational tooling.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate shared systems and platforms.
- Mentor engineers and help solve complex technical problems at scale.
- Write reliable, well-tested, scalable production code.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms.
- Strong experience with services, APIs, and data-heavy workflows.
- Experience with financial systems, payments, or other high-correctness domains, or ability to ramp quickly.
- Ability to own systems end-to-end, including production support and operational work.
- Experience collaborating with product managers and cross-functional partners.
- Experience mentoring engineers.
- Experience with Ruby on Rails or a comparable backend framework.
- Clear communication, collaboration, and an execution-focused engineering approach.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity through RSUs.
- AI tools and systems are part of how work gets done, with opportunities to experiment with emerging AI frameworks.
- Travel to a Gusto office is required for onboarding.
- Employees based in Denver, San Francisco, New York City, or applicable Symmetry locations are expected to 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.
Tech Stack
Ruby on Rails
Categories
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.