Sr. Staff Payroll Services Engineer

About the Role:

We’re hiring seasoned engineers to join our teams that work on core platform capabilities, improving our existing systems for extensibility and scalability, and building the future of Gusto's Payroll system. As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level, you’ll be guiding projects end-to-end by influencing initial feature specs, understanding how to take existing systems closer to desired end states, executing on projects, and maintaining code that powers core experiences. If you’re interested in building elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy, join us!

About the Team:

Payroll is the beating heart of Gusto’s business. Payroll Services teams are responsible for the product, ops, and service components Gusto uses to onboard customers, process payrolls, calculate taxes & deductions, pay and file with tax agencies, and maintain compliance on behalf of the customers. The domain is highly complex and offers the opportunity to engage in system design that simplifies this for customers, both internal and external.

Teams within Payroll Services 

• Tax Accuracy: The Tax Accuracy group is responsible for gathering and maintaining the necessary information for us to pay and file taxes accurately and on time for our customers, and consists of multiple teams that cover various parts of the process.

• Ledger: This team is building a payroll ledger to track accrual accounting for payroll-related money movement. This team is starting to support the payroll domain, risk, payments, and accounting. 

• Engine: This team works closely with the payroll compliance team to ensure enablement of compliant pay, such as minimum wage adjustments, regular rate of pay, etc. We enable end-to-end success of payroll processing and working with various domain teams such as tax calculations, tax setup, payments, and more.

• Platform: This team is developing a new platform to be the common interface for interacting with payroll and tax data. The payroll and tax domain is highly complex; our team exists to make it easier for other application teams to interact with the payroll and tax system. 

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Design, build, and test the foundation that supports compliant payroll for millions of people

• Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world

• Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams

• Build the software platform that powers multiple 1st and 3rd party products and serves millions of businesses.

• Mentor and grow fellow engineers working to create holistic and scalable solutions

• Drive the product development process from concept to launch, delivering delightful products that make payroll, taxes, and compliance simple and easy

• Improve the productivity and happiness of our teams with the services, tools, and APIs you build.

• Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation

Here’s what we're looking for:

• Successful applicants have at least 12+ years of experience

• Experience in designing and developing robust, distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages

• Experience influencing and guiding the work of multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products 

• Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production level code

• An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems

• Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs

• Enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment

• Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code 

• Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software

• Experience building products in highly regulated domains is desired, but not required

• Experience in one of these domains is preferred: Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance 

• Bonus: Experience with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and React

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $191,000/yr to $225,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $225,000/yr to $265,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Stock equity is additional. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.