Remote Software Engineer (Senior/Staff)

Summary

Join us at Gusto as a seasoned software engineer to oversee projects end-to-end, mentor other engineers, and build elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy.

Requirements

• Successful applicants typically have 8+ years of software development experience
• Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale
• Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain
• Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders
• Experience in, or interest working in, Ruby on Rails
• Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact
• Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your product area
• Passion for creating memorable experiences for customers
• Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment
• Able to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and test Gusto's product suite that spans across Payroll, Benefits, HR, Time, Tax Credits, and more
• Mentor other engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems out there in very complex domains and at a large scale
• Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world
• Collaborate with our Product Management and Design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily
• Build a product that our customers genuinely love

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with React, GraphQL or Typescript
• Experience in payment technologies

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k)s
• Expert HR
• Team management tools