About the company
At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and test infrastructure capabilities that enable the Risk team to efficiently build unique, custom-tailored experiences for existing and emerging Risk products.
- Lead well-scoped, sometimes complex projects end-to-end from technical design through rollout partnering with Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, and Operations.
- Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world.
- Serve as a domain expert other engineers consult on for Risk platform capabilities.
- Set expectations with stakeholders on project timelines, communicating updates and changes as the project progresses.
- Mentor engineers earlier in their careers and contribute to a healthy, high-performing team.
- Identify and execute on technical debt and quality improvements within your project's domain.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, respond to reliability, security, and performance incidents, and prioritize postmortem action items.
- Improve the productivity and happiness of your team with the tools, patterns, and documentation you build.
Requirements
- 8+ years of Software Develop Experience.
- Experience applying AI tools to accelerate development, testing, and documentation and directing, reviewing, and correcting AI-generated work based on your own understanding of the system.
- Experience designing, building, and testing production-quality code and architecture for projects that may be technically or organizationally complex.
- Experience owning a project end-to-end from technical design through rollout while coordinating with product, design, and data partners.
- Comfortable setting technical direction for a project and making tradeoffs between competing priorities (e.g. customer needs vs. technical needs, short-term vs. long-term).
- 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, reliable software.
Conditions
- Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $150,000-$170,000 /yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $185,000-$205,000 /yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
- Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role).