Senior Staff Software Engineer, Gusto

Gusto Pro

$191-279k

Salary dependent on location. + Stock equity

Senior and Expert level
Denver
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

2-3 days a week in office

Gusto

Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform

Job no longer available

Gusto

Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform

1001+ employees

FintechB2BHRSaaSAccounting

Job no longer available

$191-279k

Salary dependent on location. + Stock equity

Senior and Expert level
Denver
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

2-3 days a week in office

1001+ employees

FintechB2BHRSaaSAccounting

Company mission

To create a world where work empowers a better life.

Role

Who you are

  • Deep expertise in building maintainable systems at scale
  • Experience providing technical leadership, including influencing architecture and design decisions for complex applications
  • A track record of delivering high-quality software in collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Expertise in applying engineering best practices, such as code quality, testing strategies, and performance optimization
  • Proven ability to mentor engineers and foster technical growth within a team
  • Effective communication skills, with the ability to share knowledge and align teams on technical goals
  • Experience in SaaS, fintech, or similar industries is a plus
  • When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required

What the job involves

  • As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Gusto Pro team, you will drive technical strategy and execution for features that empower accounting firms to serve their clients more effectively
  • You’ll bring deep expertise and thought leadership in engineering excellence, influencing the team’s approach to solving complex challenges
  • Beyond delivering impactful projects, you’ll model and promote a culture of innovation, mentorship, and collaboration, helping the team grow and achieve exceptional results
  • The Gusto Pro team creates tools tailored to accountants, with a mission to help them serve their clients efficiently and effectively
  • You’ll join a team of customer-obsessed engineers, designers, and product managers working to deliver features that streamline workflows, enhance user experiences, and improve Gusto Pro's scalability
  • We prioritize impact and measure accordingly to create tight feedback loops on which to iterate
  • Identify and solve high-impact problems involving a level of technical and/or organization complexity that requires understanding and coordination across multiple domains
  • Consistently show up as an organizational leader, within the Gusto Pro group and beyond
  • Work with engineers and leaders across team and organizational boundaries to elevate Gusto’s engineering quality and velocity
  • Inform and maintain best practices for reliability and observability for the Gusto Pro group
  • Communicate and negotiate the organizational investment for the creation or expansion of the Gusto Pro group’s systems and services
  • Lead engineering-wide improvements to core data models and other foundational architecture

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Insights

Top investors

45% employee growth in 12 months

Company

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

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

May 2022

$55m

SERIES E

Aug 2021

$175m

SERIES E

Total funding: $706.1m

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.

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