Senior Staff Software Engineer, Embedded Payroll
Gusto
full-time
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Location: California, Colorado, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $185,000 - $205,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
RubyRuby on Rails
About the role
- Be a key technical leader influencing the team and broader organization as we build and scale our product.
- Hands-on development in our complex Ruby on Rails codebase and guide others to deliver a high quality platform experience.
- Identify and solve high-impact problems involving technical and organizational complexity that requires understanding and coordination across multiple domains.
- Engage directly with our developer-customers to deliver a remarkable payroll product.
- Ship code: Clean, tested, and performant.
- Level up the craft of software engineering across the organization by providing technical guidance and mentoring.
- Inform and maintain best practices for reliability and observability for the team.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
Requirements
- 12+ years of professional software development experience with a track record of driving impact at scale.
- Proven ability to take ownership of company-wide engineering initiatives and contribute to scaling engineering organizations.
- Ruby and Rails expert.
- Deep experience working across large, complex codebases and comfort operating at multiple layers of abstraction.
- Demonstrated success in designing and building platforms, services, and APIs with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
- History of mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, and guiding teams through ambiguous problems and competing priorities.
- Ability to connect technical decisions to business priorities, align teams around the right goals, and effectively communicate tradeoffs and technical needs to business stakeholders.