Senior Staff Engineer, Gusto

• 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

• 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

• 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

Total funding: $706.1m

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.