Senior Software Engineer, Guideline
$130.5-208.5k
Salary dependent on location + Stock Options
Retirement plans for small business
Be an early applicant
Retirement plans for small business
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$130.5-208.5k
Salary dependent on location + Stock Options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help everyone arrive at a safe, secure retirement, whether they're a small business owner, an employee, or self-employed.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend software products, systems, and 3rd party API integrations
- Expertise in Ruby programming language and Ruby on Rails web application framework
- Working knowledge of relational databases, database schema design, and designing APIs
- Familiarity with DevSecOps principles and integrating security into the development lifecycle
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning skills
- Familiarity with building and scaling a distributed systems environment built with Kubernetes, Docker, and GCP or similar tools
What the job involves
- Guideline is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our expanding Payroll and Integrations team. You will join a distributed team of remote employees and employees based near our offices
- As a Senior Engineer on an agile team, you will build upon our growing line of products that bring the possibility of a safe retirement to more people
- Build reliable and resilient integrations with external payroll systems to automate and enhance the retirement planning experience for our customers
- Develop APIs for web applications that manage sensitive financial assets and important business logic
- Develop features that improve complex processes and systems, making them more robust and performant with less human intervention
- Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and infrastructure with a strong focus on security, scalability, and performance
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize backend infrastructure, ensuring high availability and reliability
- Champion best practices in software development, including code reviews, test automation, and continuous integration, ensuring code quality and operational excellence
- Write clear, comprehensive documentation for system architecture, design decisions, and operational procedures
- Work collaboratively with engineers, product managers, third party vendors, and other key stakeholders to bring new products and features to our customers
Our take
When businesses offer a 401(K) plan, a message is sent to employees and potential employees that their future is valued by their employer. However, small businesses are often left behind, being charged extortionate fees or ignored by 401(K) providers altogether, leaving many American families with no retirement savings and the potential of retiring into poverty.
Guideline spotted this oversight as an opportunity to jump in and offer small businesses an affordable 401(K). It generates income by charging each business a flat monthly fee per participant.
The company now manages retirement plans for hundreds of thousands of people in over 40,000 companies and has accumulated over $8 billion in assets under management. Benefits providers Intuit, Gusto, and Square all use Guideline as their 401(K) partners.
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Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Jul 2020
$80m
SERIES D
Total funding: $339m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans—100% for employees, 70% for dependents
- Generous 401(k) match
- Paid time off + unlimited vacation days
- Paid parental leave
- Mental health coaching and therapy
- Learning and development stipend
- Cash referral bonus
- Commuter benefits
Company HQ
Downtown, Burlingame, CA
Leadership
Kevin Busque
(CEO)Majored in Computer Information Science at Fitchburg State University. Started out as an Advisory Unix Systems Administrator at IBM and then founded LinkedUp.net, an Open Source consulting company, in 1996. Acted as Chief Information Security Officer at the Institute for Health Metrics and was Director of IT at Humedica. Co-founded TaskRabbit in 2008, acting as its VP of Technology until 2015.
Mike Nelson
(CTO)Majored in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern Maine. Was Mobile Developer and CTO at TechStars-backed Accelgolf from 2007 to 2010. Joined SkillSlate as Rails Engineer and CTO, before being hired by TaskRabbit as Staff Engineer in 2012.
Jeremy Caballero
(Co-Founder & CPO)Started out as a Junior Programmer at Mail Boxes Etc. Worked as a Photographer and Videographer from 2007 to 2011, and then as a Freelance Digital Designer. Was Lead Designer at lifestyle adventure brand Targa Trophy before joining TargetSafety's UX team. Was made Lead Product Designer at TaskRabbit in 2012.
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