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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Gusto Embedded Payroll

Gusto

$185,000 - $240,000
Sep 24, 2025
Denver, CO, US • San Francisco, CA, US • New York, NY, US • Los Angeles, CA, US • Seattle, WA, US
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Gusto Embedded Payroll is a platform that allows developers to embed payroll directly into their own software using our APIs. We've taken Gusto’s robust payroll infrastructure and made it available to third-party developers. Our vision is to enable anyone to build the best payroll product for their end customers - powering payroll for small and medium businesses across a variety of industries, from vertical SaaS to fintech and neobanks.

Requirements

  • Ruby and Rails expert.
  • Deep experience working across large, complex codebases and comfort operating at multiple layers of abstraction.
  • Demonstrated success in designing and building platforms, services, and APIs with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and solve high-impact problems involving technical and organizational complexity that requires understanding and coordination across multiple domains.
  • Engage directly with our developer-customers to deliver a remarkable payroll product.
  • Ship code. Clean, tested, and performant.
  • Level up the craft of software engineering across the organization by providing technical guidance and mentoring.
  • Inform and maintain best practices for reliability and observability for the team.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues.

Other

  • 12+ years of professional software development experience with a track record of driving impact at scale.
  • Proven ability to take ownership of company-wide engineering initiatives and contribute to scaling engineering organizations.
  • History of mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, and guiding teams through ambiguous problems and competing priorities.
  • Ability to connect technical decisions to business priorities, align teams around the right goals, and effectively communicate tradeoffs and technical needs to business stakeholders.
  • Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role).