Staff Software Engineer, Gusto
Reporting Platform
$200-247k
Stock equity is additional
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
$200-247k
Stock equity is additional
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To grow the small business economy.
Role
Who you are
- This is an exciting opportunity for engineers passionate about platform engineering and data at scale
- We are looking for a talented frontend-leaning full stack software engineer with experience building and maintaining SaaS-based solutions
- 7+ years of professional software development experience. You have been a technical owner for initiatives that have spanned multiple development teams
- Highly proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, TypeScript
- Very strong 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 complex technical issues. You can take highly ambiguous problems and clarify them based on business context. You are experienced at breaking down these projects, scaffolding them for teams, and helping them execute their achievement
- Members of our platform teams must be excellent communicators. You will spend time interacting with technical counterparts across engineering to understand their problems and help them onboard our solutions
- 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 learning new domains and quickly building deep expertise in our technical systems and how our business works
- You value breaking down problems and quickly deploying work to production to gather learnings and iterate
- When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees
What the job involves
- 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
- As a member of our Reporting Platform team, you will create and maintain reports and enable engineering teams to deposit and consume data from our reporting platform
- The Platform organization at Gusto is in its early stages of building foundational components that can be reused consistently across our product lines
- Collaboratively design and implement reports and visualizations across Gusto’s product suite in our Ruby on Rails/React-based stack
- Migrate reports from our legacy infrastructure (Rails/MySQL) to our new reporting platform (Rails/Cube/Clickhouse)
- Frequently demonstrate your work to your team and the broader engineering organization
- Improve the quality of our offerings by participating in support rotations and maintaining a prioritized backlog of technical debt and SRE improvements
- Lead and mentor fellow engineers in tackling complex technical challenges at scale
- Prototype, iterate, and launch new features quickly and efficiently
- Foster a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and innovation, building products our customers love
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 400,000 customers and a multi-billion dollar valuation. And 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 has seen it reach key profitability benchmarks. It continues to expand its platform, most recently partnering with Parafin to launch a payroll line of credit for small businesses. With a growing suite of services and a clear focus on supporting small businesses through changing economic conditions, Gusto looks set to sustain its momentum and further strengthen its position in the HR and payroll technology market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
45% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
May 2022
$55m
SERIES E
Aug 2021
$175m
SERIES E
Total funding: $706.3m
Company benefits
- Health and Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents. Family care and support, including family planning and fertility benefits. Gender-affirming care and support. A variety of mental health resources.
- Time Away: It's important to take time away for yourself or to take care of your family. Gusto offers paid vacation, sick time, bereavement, and holidays, paid leaves, sabbatical, and more!
- Free meals and refreshments: If you work at one of our offices, enjoy food, drinks, and snacks— on us. Conversation and community is an added bonus!
- Perks:
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Joshua Reeves
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford and went onto co-found Gusto in 2011.
Tomer London
(Co-Founder & 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
(Co-Founder & 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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