Principal Software Engineer - Payroll

Job Description

Gusto is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their Contractors team and play a key role in shaping the future of Gusto’s flagship Payroll product. This role involves designing, building, and scaling capabilities that power essential experiences for customers. The Principal Engineer will collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver impactful features that meet customer needs and elevate user experiences.About GustoGusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 400,000 businesses nationwide.Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient backend systems to support Gusto’s Payroll products.
• Function as a Technical Lead across multiple teams in Pay Group, helping us keep engineers unblocked and deliver high-quality work supporting our long-term goals
• 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.
• Engage in a highly supportive environment,t working with others to drive productivity and innovation.
• Continuously stay up-to-date with backend technologies and methodologies, advancements in AI and Machine Learning, and apply this knowledge to our projects.

Requirements:

• 15+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience in scaling Engineering organizations with a focus on individual and team development
• Experience building and maintaining resilient backend systems to support customer-facing products.
• Experience in highly cross-functional environments for highly complex products
• Experience as tech lead, overseeing projects across multiple teams
• Experience in optimizing existing systems for performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Experience developing and maintaining RESTful APIs, GraphQL endpoints, and backend services, ensuring seamless integration with frontend systems and third-party services.
• Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
• Enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment

Gusto Offers:

• Opportunity to work on a core product used by 300,000+ customers.
• Chance to make a profound impact on both the product and the customers who depend on it daily.
• Collaborative and inclusive workplace.