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
- Function as a Technical Lead across multiple teams in Payroll Services, helping us keep engineers unblocked and deliver high-quality work supporting our long-term goals
- 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
- 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
- Continuously stay up-to-date with advancements in AI and Machine Learning, applying this knowledge to our projects.
Requirements
- Successful applicants typically have at least 15+ years of experience
- Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code
- Strong knowledge of data structures, data modeling, and system design
- Experience working across 3+ teams, influencing both product and team direction
- Experience working on platform products which are depended upon throughout the company
- Experience engineering, designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production
- An aptitude in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex problems, communicating technical complexity and facilitating informed tradeoffs to major stakeholders
- Experience operationalizing and scaling large interconnected production systems
- Enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment
- Experience in complex highly regulated domains (HR, Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance)
- Experience using AI tools to build, test, and iterate on products quickly.
- Understanding of how to evaluate AI-driven outputs using clear success criteria.
- A commitment to staying current on emerging backend technologies and AI frameworks and patterns, regularly experimenting with new approaches.
- Willingness to contribute to shared tools or templates that enhance the speed and safety of AI experimentation.
Conditions
- All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs)
- AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto; all team members are expected to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role