Software Engineer, Financial Data & Payments (Remote)

Gusto; United States; Hybrid; USD 183,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Base pay + benefits

Job summary

Gusto is hiring senior engineers to own the financial backbone of payroll and payments platforms. You will guide end-to-end architecture, scale, and modularity, driving important decisions and maintaining core systems powering payroll and payments for thousands of businesses.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Compliance, with opportunities to mentor others and impact a market-leading payments Infra.

Qualifications

• Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software.
• Experience designing and developing robust, distributed systems.
• Ability to mentor and grow engineers and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test financial data systems (ledger/subledger and reporting).
• Build reconciliation at scale and lead variance investigations end-to-end.
• Own the payment profile, including verification, bank connections, and payout rules.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Engineering, Product, Design, Data Science, Finance, and Compliance.
• Mentor engineers to create scalable solutions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Fault-tolerant software

Communication of complexity

Mentoring engineers

Ruby on Rails

TypeScript

React

Tools

Ruby on Rails

TypeScript

React

Job description

Gusto is hiring senior engineers to own the financial backbone of payroll and payments platforms. You will guide end-to-end architecture, scale, and modularity, driving important decisions and maintaining core systems powering payroll and payments for thousands of businesses.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Compliance, with opportunities to mentor others and impact a market-leading payments Infra.