Senior Staff Engineer, Gusto
Platform
$191-265k
Actual salary range is dependent on location. Stock equity is additional
2-3 days a week in office
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Open for applications
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$191-265k
Actual salary range is dependent on location. Stock equity is additional
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where work empowers a better life.
Role
Who you are
- You will bring deep experience in building world-class experiences and systems, strong mentorship skills, and the ability to think holistically about the systems we own
- Experience: 12+ years of professional software development experience. You have been a technical owner for organization-wide engineering initiatives and have played a role in scaling engineering organizations
- Technical Expertise: Expert-level understanding of SaaS fundamentals. You know how to build and ship SaaS products safely and monitor them in production. You are a go-to person in your organization for technical strategy, decision-making, and problem-solving
- Effective Communicator: Members of our platform teams must be excellent communicators. You will set the stage for how we interact with other engineering teams and define our process touchpoints. You will be an engineering representative for our platform offerings
- A track record of learning: Technologies change over time. To succeed in this role, you must jump into unfamiliar areas and quickly develop expertise. We are looking for someone excited about becoming a reporting subject matter expert and who thrives on upleveling their organization through education
- If you have experience or interest in any of the following areas, we want to talk to you:
- Platform Engineering
- Reporting
- Ruby on Rails
- OLAP datastores
What the job involves
- The Reporting Platform team at Gusto empowers business owners to make better decisions with data and insights through reports and visualizations that span our product lines
- The Platform organization at Gusto is in its early stages of building foundational components that can be reused consistently across our product lines
- This is an exciting opportunity for engineers passionate about platform engineering and data at scale
- As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Platform Reporting team, you will help drive our core reporting strategy and its execution across our suite of products
- Identify and solve high-impact problems involving technical and/or organizational complexity that requires understanding and coordination across multiple domains
- Consistently demonstrate organizational leadership within our core experience teams and beyond
- Work with engineers and others across team and organizational boundaries to elevate Gusto’s engineering quality and velocity
- Inform and maintain best practices for reliability and observability for the team
- Communicate and negotiate organizational investment for the creation or expansion of our systems and services
- Find, explore, and coordinate engineering-wide improvements to our core foundational architecture for reporting
- Identify the proper abstractions for our platform that allow other engineering teams to use our reporting services
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 three co-founders of Gusto – all coming from small business backgrounds – collaborated on a Fintech company 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 200,000 customers and a multi-billion dollar valuation. In 2021, Gusto began acquiring other companies to strengthen its offering and its position in a competitive market, including two other fintech startups, Ardius and Symmetry.
Through its continued acquisitions and fundraising efforts, the company has carved out a strong position for itself in the space. Although Gusto has found itself impacted by the macroeconomic situation, through the significant effect it has had on its clientele, the company still appears positive for the future after raising funds in 2023 that will see it reach key profitability benchmarks. It continues to consolidate its platform, for example by integrating with OpenComp to grant its users access to the company's Compensation Intelligence Platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
45% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2022
$55m
SERIES E
Aug 2021
$175m
SERIES E
Total funding: $706.1m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus a variety of mental health resources
- Flexible vacation - Gusties are encouraged to take the time off they need to continue doing great work
- Fertility treatments, parental leave, pregnancy termination, caregiving, gender-affirming surgery, hormone treatments, transgender-inclusive services, and more
- If you work at one of our homebases, enjoy food, drinks, and good conversation — on us
- Celebrate 5 or 10 years at Gusto and take a month off to recharge
- Take advantage of internet, phone, commuter, and wellness stipends each month, along with a WFH stipend and cash for anniversaries
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Joshua Reeves
(CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford and went onto co-found Gusto in 2011.
Tomer London
(CPO)Has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. Was a Researcher at Intel, and then interned at Bump Technologies. Co-founded Vizmo, a mobile self-service technologies company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.
Edward Kim
(Head of Engineering)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Was Senior Project Engineer at Volkswagen of America Electronics Research Lab and then co-founded Picwing, a printed photos company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.
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