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Gusto is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their Payments team. This role involves building new payment capabilities across the US and internationally, as well as re-architecting the payments platform for future scalability. The Principal Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and test the foundation that supports payments for millions of people.
Role involves:
- Functioning as a Technical Lead across multiple teams in Payments.
- Designing, building, and testing the foundation that supports payments for millions of people.
- Scaling one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world.
- Collaborating on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams.
- Mentoring and growing fellow engineers working to create holistic and scalable solutions.
- Driving the product development process from concept to launch.
- Improving the productivity and happiness of teams with the services, tools, and APIs you build.
Requirements:
- 15+ years of expertise in Payments platforms at scaled FinTech companies.
- Experience successfully building scalable and global payments platforms.
- Experience with payment regulations including money service licensing and requirements to achieve and maintain SOC2 compliance is a plus.
- Knowledge of payments unit economics and how they work is also a plus.
- Proven ability to collaborate across multiple teams (3+) to shape product vision and drive strategic direction.
- Extensive experience in developing and maintaining platform products that serve as foundational components across the organization.
- Demonstrated expertise in engineering, designing, and deploying large-scale, mission-critical systems in production environments.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, data modeling, and system design.
- Strong aptitude for distilling complex technical challenges into clear, actionable insights.
- Experience in operationalizing and scaling intricate interconnected production systems.
- Passionate mentor dedicated to nurturing and developing fellow engineers.
- Leadership in driving the entire product development lifecycle from ideation to launch.
- Commitment to enhancing team productivity and morale.
Gusto offers:
- Opportunity to work on a payments platform that moves hundreds of billions of dollars per year.
- Chance to build new payments and money movement capabilities across US and International.
- Opportunity to (re)architect our payments platform to scale for the future.
- Collaboration with a talented cross-functional team.
- A highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation.
