
Staff Software Engineer – Payments, Risk
Gusto
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $163,000 - $204,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
RubyRailsJavaScriptReactAI toolsKYCAMLpayment railsledgeringfraud detection
Soft Skills
mentoringproblem-solvingcollaborationcuriosityexperimentationownershipcommunicationiterationscalabilitycustomer focus