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Gusto is seeking a Sr. Staff Payroll Services Engineer to join their team. This role involves guiding projects end-to-end, influencing feature specs, understanding existing systems, executing projects, and maintaining code that powers core experiences. The engineer will work on core platform capabilities, improving existing systems for extensibility and scalability, and building the future of Gusto's Payroll system.
The role involves:
- Designing, building, and testing the foundation that supports compliant payroll.
- Scaling one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications.
- Collaborating on complex problems with cross-functional teams.
- Building the software platform that powers multiple products.
- Mentoring and growing fellow engineers.
- Driving the product development process from concept to launch.
- Improving team productivity and happiness with services, tools, and APIs.
Requirements:
- 12+ years of experience.
- Experience in designing and developing robust, distributed systems.
- Experience influencing and guiding teams on scaling and optimizing products.
- Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production code.
- Aptitude for bringing clarity to complex problems.
- Ability to communicate technical complexity.
- Enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment.
- Ability to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code.
- Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software.
Gusto offers:
- A collaborative and inclusive workplace.
- Opportunity to work on a modern, online people platform.
- Chance to impact payroll for millions of people.
