Senior Staff Software Engineer, Gusto
Consumer Money
$189.5-275.9k
Salary dependent on location. + Stock Equity
2-3 days a week in office
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Be an early applicant
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$189.5-275.9k
Salary dependent on location. + Stock Equity
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
- If you're interested in solving complex problems and contributing to the overall strategy of growing Gusto, join us!
- 12+ years of professional software development experience
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and working with quick iteration cycles
- Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale and resilient distributed systems and/or software platforms
- Experience as a technical lead, overseeing the work of multiple engineers and multiple teams on multi-quarter projects
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and upleveling engineering culture and practices
- Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
- Willingness to collaborate across different functions
- An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
Desirable
- Experience in the Fintech industry building scalable backend systems to power financial services and products
- React, Typescript, GraphQL, Ruby/Ruby on Rails
What the job involves
- As a technical lead, you'll play a pivotal role at the heart of this effort—scaling financial tools that help our members navigate real-life financial challenges like paycheck gaps, savings shortfalls, and credit access
- From earned wage access to credit-building programs, merchant-funded savings, and direct deposit incentives, you'll help us turn paychecks into a financial foundation
- This is a high visibility initiative with company wide impact
- Build products & services and scale the platform that powers consumer money at Gusto
- Mentor and provide guidance to software engineers, fostering their growth and development
- Take ownership of projects, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance
- Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams
- Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation
- Help drive the product development process from concept to launch
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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