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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments and Risk
Gusto
$191,000 - $265,000
Nov 12, 2025
Denver, CO, US • San Francisco, CA, US • New York, NY, US • Los Angeles, CA, US • Seattle, WA, US • Chicago, IL, US • Miami, FL, US • Atlanta, GA, US • Austin, TX, US • Remote, US
Gusto is looking to solve the problem of scaling and optimizing its Payments and Risk platforms to efficiently manage money movement operations and mitigate financial and reputation risk.
Requirements
Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software
Experience designing and developing robust, distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages
Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production level code that is maintainable, structured, and well-documented
Experience with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and React (highly preferred)
Experience in Payments and/or Risk domains (highly preferred)
Responsibilities
Design, build, and test the infrastructure that enables Payments teams and Risk policy and experience teams to efficiently build unique, custom tailored experiences
Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world
Build the software platform that powers multiple 1st and 3rd party products and serves millions of businesses
Mentor and grow fellow engineers working to create holistic and scalable solutions
Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Operations, and other cross-functional teams
Other
Successful applicants have at least 12+ years of experience
Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
Travel to Gusto's Denver office for onboarding is required
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