Remote Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join us at Gusto as we build a new team focused on delivering employer-based financial services, including invoicing, bill pay, expense management, lending, and more. As an experienced engineer, you'll architect, design, and implement product initiatives in this space, contributing to the overall strategy of growing Gusto.

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional software development experience
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and working in a 0-1 environment with quick iteration cycles
• Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale and resilient distributed systems and/or software platforms
• Experience as a technical lead, overseeing the work of multiple engineers and multiple teams on multi-quarter projects
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and upleveling engineering culture and practices
• Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
• Willingness to collaborate across different functions
• An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems

Responsibilities

• Build the software platform that powers a new wave of employer based financial services for Gusto
• Work with engineering leadership to build out the team and set engineering culture and standards
• Mentor and provide guidance to software engineers, fostering their growth and development
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance
• Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams
• Help drive the product development process from concept to launch

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in the Fintech industry building scalable backend systems to power financial services and products