Gusto

Staff Software Engineer – Payments, Risk

Gusto

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $163,000 - $204,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design, build, and test Gusto core money movement or risk platform services – payment rails, ledgering, wallets, fraud, decisioning engine, KYC, AML, and compliance capabilities, among others
  • Mentor other engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems out there in very complex domains and at a large scale
  • Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world
  • Collaborate with our Product Engineering, Product Management, Data, Design, and financial operations teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch
  • Build platforms that engineering teams rely on, and trust to deliver products that our customers genuinely love

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software development experience
  • Passion for creating scalable, efficient money movement platforms for users
  • Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new platform capabilities
  • Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks, applying and sharing best practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely across teams
  • Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable user impact at scale
  • Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your platform area
  • Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact
Benefits
  • Competitive base pay
  • Benefits
  • Equity (RSUs)
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Hard Skills & Tools
RubyRailsJavaScriptReactAI toolsKYCAMLpayment railsledgeringfraud detection
Soft Skills
mentoringproblem-solvingcollaborationcuriosityexperimentationownershipcommunicationiterationscalabilitycustomer focus