Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Gusto as a talented and motivated engineer to lead and grow projects from end-to-end. You will build products that mitigate financial risk, prevent fraud, and globalize faster payments transactions. Responsibilities include architecting, implementing, reviewing, testing, and iterating on Gusto’s Fintech product suite. You will design highly scalable systems and build a platform for fraud detection. The ideal candidate possesses 7+ years of professional software development experience and a passion for scaling Fintech systems. Gusto offers a collaborative and inclusive workplace with opportunities to work remotely.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Passionate about scaling the Fintech system that processes billions of dollars
• Independent, dedicated, and able to deliver production ready code with high autonomy and minimal guidance
• Enjoy working on SaaS technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, CI/CD and AWS etc on the cloud
• Well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code that balances beauty and pragmatism
• Experience developing best practices to build out and maintain scalable systems, service oriented applications, and more

Responsibilities

• Build products that mitigate financial risk, prevent fraud and globalize faster payments transactions in a safe and secure way
• Own what you build end to end as you architect, implement, review, test, and iterate Gusto’s Fintech product suite
• Design highly scalable systems that drive the business growth to safely move billions of dollars
• Build the platform to enable fraud signal collection and anomaly detection for fraudulent activities on Gusto
• Drive the processor agnostic 3rd party API integration to provide new payment features and enrich payments methods, including but not limited to ACH, credit card, vendor payments, real time payments with redundancy backup
• Partner with product, data, finance, compliance and operations to audit financial reconciliation and debt recovery to provide the complete financial bookkeeping

Preferred Qualifications

Payments and/or risk experience

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k)s
• Remote work, flexible hours