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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments

Gusto

$191,000 - $265,000
Aug 29, 2025
Denver, CO, US • San Francisco, CA, US • New York, NY, US • Atlanta, GA, US • Austin, TX, US • Chicago, IL, US • Los Angeles, CA, US • Seattle, WA, US • Washington, DC, US
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Gusto needs to build new payments and money movement capabilities across US and International, and (re)architect their payments platform to scale for the future.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of expertise in Payments platforms at scaled FinTech companies
  • Experience successfully building scalable and global payments platforms
  • Knowledge of payments unit economics and how they work
  • Experience with payment regulations including money service licensing and requirements to achieve and maintain SOC2 compliance
  • Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, data modeling, and system design
  • Experience working on platform products which are depended upon throughout the company
  • Experience engineering, designing, building and supporting large scale, mission-critical systems in production

Responsibilities

  • Function as a Technical Lead for a team in Payments, helping us keep engineers unblocked and deliver high-quality work supporting our long-term goals
  • Design, build, and test the foundation that supports payments 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
  • 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

Other

  • Travel to Gusto’s Denver office for onboarding is required for this position
  • Employees who are based in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week
  • A secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required when working from a location other than a Gusto office
  • Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in Computer Science or related field (not explicitly mentioned but implied)