Senior FinTech Data & Payments Engineer

Gusto; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 183,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Job summary

Gusto is hiring a seasoned engineer to join the Financial Data & Payment Profile group, building the ledger, reconciliation, and reporting backbone. You will drive end-to-end technical architecture, scale, and modularity while delivering reliable systems that power payroll payments for hundreds of thousands of businesses.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in distributed systems, experience with Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React, and a collaborative, test-driven mindset.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience in distributed systems.
• Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software and scalable architectures.
• Experience guiding multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and modernization of legacy products.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test financial data systems: ledger, subledger, and financial reporting.
• Build reconciliation at scale and trace breaks to root causes.
• Lead variance investigation tooling, instrumentation, and runbooks.
• Own the payment profile: setup to fund payroll and pay employees/contractors.
• Improve setup and verification for instant bank verifications and resilient connections.
• Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React apps in the world.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners (Eng, PM, Design, Data, Finance, Compliance).
• Mentor engineers to develop holistic, scalable solutions.

Skills

10+ years exp

Distributed systems

Fault-tolerant software

Architecting large codebases

Ruby on Rails

Typescript

React

Communication

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Typescript

React

Job description

Gusto is hiring a seasoned engineer to join the Financial Data & Payment Profile group, building the ledger, reconciliation, and reporting backbone. You will drive end-to-end technical architecture, scale, and modularity while delivering reliable systems that power payroll payments for hundreds of thousands of businesses.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in distributed systems, experience with Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React, and a collaborative, test-driven mindset.