Senior Software Engineer, Gusto
Risk
$185-205k
2-3 days a week in office
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
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Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$185-205k
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To grow the small business economy.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of Software Develop Experience
- Experience applying AI tools to accelerate development, testing, and documentation and directing, reviewing, and correcting AI-generated work based on your own understanding of the system
- Experience designing, building, and testing production-quality code and architecture for projects that may be technically or organizationally complex
- Experience owning a project end-to-end from technical design through rollout while coordinating with product, design, and data partners
- Comfortable setting technical direction for a project and making tradeoffs between competing priorities (e.g. customer needs vs. technical needs, short-term vs. long-term)
- An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
- Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
- Enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment
- Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code
- Experience building fault-tolerant, reliable software
What the job involves
- We're hiring engineers to join our Risk Engineering team, which works on core platform capabilities, improves our existing systems for extensibility and scalability, and builds the future of Gusto's Risk system
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll lead well-scoped — and sometimes technically or organizationally complex projects end-to-end: driving technical design, partnering with product, design, and data teams to plan and deliver, and writing the code that powers core experiences
- You'll be a domain expert other engineers turn to, and you'll set the technical example for your team
- If you're interested in building elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy, join us!
- In order to enable growth for Gusto and our customers, the Risk org is responsible for defining best-in-class user experiences in order to mitigate financial and reputation risk. This team within our Risk Org is responsible for building the infrastructure for a.) bad actor platform capabilities to prevent fraudsters from abusing Gusto's platform while improving false positive rate and, b.) the credit underwriting and collections platform to enable faster and greater access to credit while minimizing financial loss
- Design, build, and test infrastructure capabilities that enable the Risk team to efficiently build unique, custom-tailored experiences for existing and emerging Risk products
- Lead well-scoped, sometimes complex projects end-to-end from technical design through rollout partnering with Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, and Operations
- Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world
- Serve as a domain expert other engineers consult on for Risk platform capabilities
- Set expectations with stakeholders on project timelines, communicating updates and changes as the project progresses
- Mentor engineers earlier in their careers and contribute to a healthy, high-performing team
- Identify and execute on technical debt and quality improvements within your project's domain
- Participate in an on-call rotation, respond to reliability, security, and performance incidents, and prioritize postmortem action items
- Improve the productivity and happiness of your team with the tools, patterns, and documentation you build
Our take
For many small businesses, vital administrative tasks such as payroll, taxes, and benefits are manual tasks that take time and energy - which many SMB owners don’t have. The co-founders of Gusto all come from small business backgrounds, which is why they created a platform that would handle employee payments, benefits administration, and compliance support specifically for small businesses.
The company may have started slowly, as the founders focused on nailing each individual aspect of Gusto’s operations, but has now skyrocketed to unicorn status with more than 400,000 customers and a multi-billion dollar valuation. And in 2021, Gusto began acquiring other companies to strengthen its offering and position in a competitive market, including the likes of Ardius, Symmetry and Guideline.
Through its continued acquisitions and fundraising efforts, the company has carved out a strong position for itself in the space. It continues to expand its platform, for example by partnering with Parafin to launch a payroll line of credit for small businesses, and more recently launching Cofounder, an AI teammate tailored to the needs of small businesses.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
45% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
May 2022
$55m
SERIES E
Aug 2021
$175m
SERIES E
Total funding: $706.3m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
- Family care and support, including family planning and fertility benefits
- Gender-affirming care and support
- A variety of mental health resources
- Paid vacation, sick time, bereavement, and holidays, paid leaves, sabbatical, and more
- Free meals and refreshments at the office (conversation and community is an added bonus!)
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Joshua Reeves
(CEO & Co-Founder)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford and went onto co-found Gusto in 2011.
Tomer London
(CPO & Co-Founder)Has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. Was a Researcher at Intel, and then interned at Bump Technologies. Co-founded Vizmo before co-founding Gusto in 2011.
Edward Kim
(Head of Technology & Co-Founder)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Was Senior Project Engineer at Volkswagen of America Electronics Research Lab and then co-founded Picwing before co-founding Gusto in 2011.
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