Staff Software Engineer, Core Platforms
Staff Software Engineer builds and scales core platform services like communications, reporting, and payments using Ruby/Rails and React. Requires 8+ years experience, AI tool usage, mentoring, and ownership of complex projects at scale.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and test Gusto core platform services – communications, reporting, dashboards, access, workflows, risk, payments, and compliance capabilities, among others
- Mentor other engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems out there in very complex domains and at a large scale
- Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world
- Collaborate with our Product Engineering, Product Management, Data, and Design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Passion for creating scalable, efficient platforms for users
- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new platform capabilities
- Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks, applying and sharing best practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely across teams
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable user impact at scale
- Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your platform area
- Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in, or interest working in, Ruby on Rails
- Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment
- Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code
- Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders
Compensation
- $163,000–$204,000 in Denver & most remote locations
- $197,000–$247,000 for San Francisco & New York
- Stock equity is additional
Skills
Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, React, AI Tools, Ruby, Test-Driven Development
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