Business Money Engineering, Gusto
$163-247k
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Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
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Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$163-247k
+ RSUs. Salary dependent on location.
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To grow the small business economy.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional software development experience
- Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale and resilient distributed systems and/or software platforms
- Maximizes the use of AI tooling while guiding the team in adopting modern AI practices
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and working with quick iteration cycles
- Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
- Willingness to collaborate across different functions
- An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
- Experience as a technical lead, leading the work of multiple engineers on multi-quarter projects
Desirable
- Experience in the Fintech industry building scalable backend systems to power financial services and products
- Experience with accounting, bookkeeping, tax, or financial reporting systems and a strong understanding of accounting workflows
- Familiarity with small business accounting or tax domains, including concepts such as ledgers, reconciliations, financial statements, payroll accounting, or tax compliance
- Ruby/Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React, Typescript, AWS
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer, you’ll play a significant role in building new products and scaling existing ones to further evolve Gusto’s product offerings
- Your work will focus on improving our customers’ financial tools, helping them spend less time managing their finances and more time focusing on their businesses
- You will collaborate with a team of highly skilled professionals, contributing engineering expertise throughout the product development lifecycle—from ideation and design to architecture, development, release, and post-release monitoring and scaling
- As we continue to expand our offerings across business finance, accounting, and cash flow management, this is a great opportunity to apply your skills and help shape the future of Gusto Money
- Build products & services and scale the platform that powers business money and accounting experiences at Gusto
- Take ownership of projects, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance
- Adopt the latest best practices for using AI technologies across all aspects of product development
- Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams
- Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation
- Help drive the product development process from concept to launch
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.
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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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