Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gusto provides payroll, health insurance, 401(k), and HR solutions for small businesses. The Staff Software Engineer will build and own full-stack services and APIs that enable businesses to offer and manage 401(k) plans, partnering with product, compliance, and operations to deliver reliable software. The role also involves evolving architecture, improving reliability, and supporting production systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and ship services and features that allow companies to offer and manage 401(k)s to their employees
- Identifying opportunities to extend and modify the architecture of existing systems to support new capabilities
- Identify, codify, and evangelize engineering best practices
- Partner with product, design, and operations to scope work and deliver production-ready solutions
- Debug production issues and improve reliability, observability, and operational tooling
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to integrate with shared systems and platforms
- Write clear, reliable, well-tested code that ships quickly and scales well
Skills
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms
- Comfortable working across teams and gaining influence to drive projects forward
- Strong experience with services and APIs
- Strong experience with message based systems (Sidekiq, SQS, NServiceBus, etc.)
- Experience with GraphQL
- Good experience with large modern frontend applications (like React)
- Comfortable owning systems end-to-end, including production support and operational work
- Experience working closely with PMs and cross-functional partners to deliver scoped work
- Pragmatic, execution-focused approach to engineering
- Comfortable working with and influencing other teams to maximize impact
- Clear communicator and collaborative teammate
- Experience with Ruby on Rails (or a comparable backend framework)
Benefits
- All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success.
- Employees who are based in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role).
- The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.
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