Remote Payroll Services Engineer

Summary

Join us as a seasoned engineer at Gusto, where you'll design, build, and test the foundation for compliant payroll, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor fellow engineers.

Requirements

• Successful applicants have at least 12+ years of experience
• Experience in 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
• An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
• Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
• Enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment
• Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code
• Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test the foundation that supports compliant payroll for millions of people
• 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, Compliance, 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
• Drive the product development process from concept to launch, delivering delightful products that make payroll, taxes, and compliance simple and easy
• Improve the productivity and happiness of our teams with the services, tools, and APIs you build
• Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in one of these domains is preferred: Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k)s
• Expert HR
• Team management tools
• Paid time off
• Remote work, flexible hours