Principal Software Engineer, Gusto
Application Platform
$260-299k
1-2 days a week in office
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Open for applications
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$260-299k
1-2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where work empowers a better life.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years of professional software development experience
- Experience in scaling engineering organizations with a focus on individual and team development
- Web & Mobile app development expertise, including release management, observability, and performance
- Experience as a technical lead, overseeing the work of multiple teams on projects
- Experience architecting, building and testing large-scale production level code
- Proven experience in Generative AI, Machine Learning, LLM is nice to have. You should have a track record of successfully applying techniques to real-world projects
- An aptitude for tackling complex and ambiguous problems, distilling them into effective engineering solutions that drive innovation
- Experience in highly cross-functional environments for highly complex products preferred
- Experience in mobile, growth, core infrastructure (payments, fraud, credit) and user experience optimization preferred
What the job involves
- Lead and contribute to the development of cutting-edge projects within the People OS ecosystem, with a particular focus on access control, workflows, notifications, reporting, user onboarding
- Identify areas for process improvement and take the initiative to enhance engineering processes and structures
- Mentor and provide guidance to software engineers, fostering their growth and development
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle complex and ambiguous problems, translating them into engineering solutions that drive our People OS platform forward
- Work with developers, architects, and tech leads to arrive at solutions that improve the platform experience and ensure platform health and adoption
- Engage with development teams across the company to evangelize platform capabilities, best practices, and adoption
- Continuously stay up-to-date with advancements in AI and Machine Learning, applying this knowledge to our projects
- Take ownership of projects, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance
- Actively participate in code reviews, maintain code quality, and contribute to thorough testing
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to understand project requirements and deliver innovative solutions
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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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 values
- Embody a service mindset - Never stop advocating for the needs of others
- Dream big, then make it real - Be ambitious. Show and do, rather than tell and talk
- Be proud of the how - Ensure deep integrity in everything you do
- Embrace an ownership mentality - Take initiative to leave things better than you found them
- Debate then commit - Share openly, question respectfully, and once a decision is made, commit fully
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
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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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