Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments

Job Description

Gusto is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join its 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 engineer will guide projects from inception to launch, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create delightful payment experiences for customers.Responsibilities:

• Function as a Technical Lead for a team in Payments.
• Design, build, and test the foundation that supports payments for millions of people.
• 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.
• Improve the productivity and happiness of our teams with the services, tools, and APIs you build.
• Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation.

Requirements:

• 12+ 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.
• Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, data modeling, and system design.
• Experience working on platform products which are depended upon throughout the company.
• Experience engineering, designing, building and supporting large scale, mission-critical systems in production.
• An aptitude in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex problems, communicating technical complexity and facilitating informed tradeoffs to major stakeholders.
• Experience operationalizing and scaling large interconnected production systems.
• Enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment.

Gusto offers:

• Opportunity to work on a payments platform that moves hundreds of billions of dollars per year.
• A collaborative and inclusive workplace.
• Opportunity to mentor and grow fellow engineers.