Sr Software Engineer

About Gusto

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.

Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy. 

We’re hiring experienced engineers to join our teams that work on customer-facing products, developing features and iterating across our platform. As a Gusto Software Engineer, you’ll ship products and important functionality by leading initial feature specs, building backend APIs, writing frontend code, and contributing to ongoing improvements for deployed features. If you’re interested in creating elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy, join us!

Here’s what you’ll do day to day:

• Build, test, and deliver Gusto’s product suite the spans across Payroll, Benefits, HR, Time, Tax Credits, and more
• Collaborate with engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems out there in very complex domains and at a large scale
• Work and help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world
• Collaborate with our Product Management and Design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily
• Build a product that our customers genuinely love

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Successful applicants typically have 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience in or interest working in Ruby on Rails 
• Experience as an established engineer shipping products to end users and leading projects end-to-end
• Experience writing, testing and debugging code for highly reliable production systems at scale
• Demonstrated data modeling skills
• Passion for creating memorable experiences for customers
• Interest in complex product development problems 
• Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment
• Able to build well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code
• Nice to haves:
  Experience with React, GraphQL or Typescript
  Experience in payment technologies

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $140,000/yr to $174,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $170,000/yr to $210,000/yr for …