Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Pay Group Engineering

About the Role:

• Guide projects end-to-end by influencing initial feature specs.
• Understand how to take existing systems closer to desired end states.
• Execute on projects and maintain code that powers core experiences.

About the Team:

• The Pay Group teams are responsible for the product, ops, and service components Gusto uses to onboard customers.
• Responsible for processing payrolls, calculating taxes & deductions, pay and file with tax agencies, and maintain compliance on behalf of the customers.
• Domain is highly complex and offers the opportunity to engage in system design that simplifies this for customers, both internal and external.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Build the software platform that powers multiple 1st and 3rd party products and serves millions of businesses.
• Drive the product development process from concept to launch, delivering delightful products that make payroll, taxes, and compliance simple and easy.
• Own and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for your domain in alignment with team and group-level OKRs.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 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.