Business Money Engineering

Responsibilities

• Build products & services and scale the platform that powers business money and accounting experiences at Gusto.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance.
• Adopt the latest best practices for using AI technologies across all aspects of product development.
• Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams.
• Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation.
• Help drive the product development process from concept to launch.
• Play a significant role in building new products and scaling existing ones to further evolve Gusto’s product offerings.
• Focus on improving customers’ financial tools.
• Contribute engineering expertise throughout the product development lifecycle—from ideation and design to architecture, development, release, and post-release monitoring and scaling.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale and resilient distributed systems and/or software platforms.
• Maximizes the use of AI tooling while guiding the team in adopting modern AI practices.
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and working with quick iteration cycles.
• Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs.
• Willingness to collaborate across different functions.
• An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems.
• Experience as a technical lead, leading the work of multiple engineers on multi-quarter projects.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in the Fintech industry building scalable backend systems to power financial services and products.
• Experience with accounting, bookkeeping, tax, or financial reporting systems and a strong understanding of accounting workflows.
• Familiarity with small business accounting or tax domains, including concepts such as ledgers, reconciliations, financial statements, payroll accounting, or tax compliance.
• Ruby/Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React, Typescript, AWS.

Compensation

• Cash compensation targeted at $163,000–$204,000 in Denver & most remote locations, and $197,000–$247,000 for San Francisco & New York.
• Stock equity is additional.
• All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs).