Principal Software Engineer - Pay Group Engineering

About the Team

Pay Group teams handle product, ops, and service components for onboarding customers, processing payrolls, calculating taxes, paying/filing with tax agencies, and maintaining compliance.

Sub-Teams:

• Tax Accuracy: Gathers/maintains info for accurate, timely tax payments/filings.
• Ledger: Builds payroll ledger for accrual accounting across payroll, risk, payments, accounting.
• Engine: Enables compliant pay with payroll compliance team.
• Platform: Develops common interface for payroll/tax data interactions.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Function as a Technical Lead across multiple teams, keeping engineers unblocked and delivering high-quality work.
• Design, build, and test foundation for compliant payroll for millions.
• Help scale large Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications.
• Collaborate on complex problems with Engineering, Product, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations.
• Mentor and grow fellow engineers on scalable solutions.
• Drive product development from concept to launch.
• Improve team productivity with services, tools, APIs.
• Engage in supportive environment for productivity/innovation.
• Stay up-to-date with AI and Machine Learning, applying to projects.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 15+ years experience.
• Build maintainable, structured, well-documented code.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, data modeling, system design.
• Experience across 3+ teams, influencing product/team direction.
• Platform products depended on company-wide.
• Engineering large-scale production systems.
• Clarity/simplicity in complex problems, communicating to stakeholders.
• Operationalizing/scaling interconnected systems.
• Collaborative, test-driven environment.
• Complex regulated domains (HR, Payroll, Taxes, Compliance).
• AI tools for building/testing/iterating.
• Evaluate AI outputs with success criteria.
• Current on backend tech/AI frameworks; experiment with new approaches.
• Contribute to shared AI tools/templates.

Compensation

$215,000-$252,000/yr (Denver & most remote); $251,000-$295,000/yr (San Francisco, Seattle, New York). Stock equity additional.