Senior Staff Engineer - AI-Powered Financial Platform Lead

Gusto; New York (NY); On-site; USD 223,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock equity

Hybrid office model

Job summary

Gusto in New York is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to serve as a Technical Lead across the Money Group, shaping architecture for payments, lending, and tax.

You will guide multi-team efforts, migrate from monoliths to service-oriented architecture, and mentor engineers while delivering impact.

This role offers stock equity and a hybrid work model with offices in Denver, SF, and New York.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with focus on financial systems.
• Experience building scalable financial infrastructure (accounts, money movement, lending).
• Proven ability to drive architectural direction and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Technical Lead across multiple pods in the Money Group, setting architectural direction.
• Define the technical vision for domain areas and own short-term projects.
• Architect integration between People Stack and Finance Stack; lead service migrations.
• Manage partner ecosystem and lead technical due diligence.
• Build prototypes to unblock product decisions.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, Compliance, and Operations.
• Drive AI-native architecture decisions and advise teams.
• Mentor engineers and help grow senior staff.
• Set the bar for technical excellence through reviews and standards.
• Fill roles to hit group goals, from hands-on coding to planning.

Skills

Software engineering

Financial infrastructure

Money movement

Lending

AI-native architecture

Leadership

Job description

Gusto in New York is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to serve as a Technical Lead across the Money Group, shaping architecture for payments, lending, and tax.

You will guide multi-team efforts, migrate from monoliths to service-oriented architecture, and mentor engineers while delivering impact.

This role offers stock equity and a hybrid work model with offices in Denver, SF, and New York.