Sr. Staff Payroll Services Engineer

About Gusto Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.
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About the Role: We're hiring seasoned engineers to join our teams that work on core platform capabilities, improving our existing systems for extensibility and scalability, and building the future of Gusto's Payroll system. As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level, you'll be guiding projects end-to-end by influencing initial feature specs, understanding how to take existing systems closer to desired end states, executing on projects, and maintaining code that powers core experiences. If you're interested in building elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy, join us!
About the Team: Payroll is the beating heart of Gusto's business. Payroll Services teams are responsible for the product, ops, and service components Gusto uses to onboard customers, process payrolls, calculate taxes & deductions, pay and file with tax agencies, and maintain compliance on behalf of the customers. The domain is highly complex and offers the opportunity to engage in system design that simplifies this for customers, both internal and external.
Teams within Payroll Services Tax Accuracy: The Tax Accuracy group is responsible for gathering and maintaining the necessary information for us to pay and file taxes accurately and on time for our customers, and consists of multiple teams that cover various parts of the process.Ledger: This team is building a payroll ledger to track accrual accounting for payroll-related money movement. This team is starting to support the payroll domain, risk, payments, and accounting.Engine: This team works closely with the payroll compliance team to ensure enablement of compliant pay, such as minimum wage adjustments, regular rate of pay, etc. We enable end-to-end success of payroll processing and working with various domain teams such as tax calculations, tax setup, payments, and more.Platform: This team is developing a new platform to be the common interface for interacting with payroll and tax data. The payroll and tax domain is highly complex; our team exists to make it easier for other application teams to interact with the payroll and tax system.Here's what you'll do day-to-day: Design, build, and test the foundation that supports compliant payroll for millions of peopleHelp scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the worldCollaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teamsBuild the software platform that powers multiple 1st and 3rd party products and serves millions of businesses.Mentor and grow fellow engineers working to create holistic and scalable solutionsDrive the product development process from concept to launch, delivering delightful products that make payroll, taxes, and compliance simple and easyImprove 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 innovationHere's what we're looking for: Successful applicants have at least 12+ years of experienceExperience in designing and developing robust, distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languagesExperience influencing and guiding the work of multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy productsExperience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production level codeAn aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problemsAbility to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffsAble to build maintainable, structured, well-documented codeExperience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical softwareExperience building products in highly regulated domains is desired, but not requiredExperience in one of these domains is preferred: Payroll, Taxes, or ComplianceBonus: Experience with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and ReactOur cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $191,000/yr to $225,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $225,000/yr to $265,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Stock equity is additional. 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). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.
Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.
When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.
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