Staff Backend Engineer for Payroll Canada (AI-Driven)

certexamdb.com; Denver, San Francisco, New York (CO, CA, NY); Hybrid; USD 163.000 - 204.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Gusto is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the Payroll Canada team. You will design, build, and scale backend services and business logic powering Canadian payroll, largely from scratch, with GraphQL exposure to the frontend.

You’ll own a core domain, collaborating with Product, Design, Data, Compliance, and Operations to deliver compliant, scalable payroll solutions. The role emphasizes backend development with strong systems thinking, and requires experience handling large codebases.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development.
• Experience applying AI tools (LLMs, Claude Code, Cursor) to accelerate development and improve code quality.
• Ability to design, build, and test production-grade code at scale.

Aufgaben

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and business logic powering Canadian payroll on Ruby on Rails.
• Connect backend to frontend via GraphQL APIs and collaborate with frontend engineers.
• Own a primary domain within Payroll Canada and drive correctness, scalability and evolution.

Kenntnisse

Backend development

Ruby

GraphQL

AI tooling

Systems thinking

Cross-team collaboration

Full-stack ability

Software architecture

Production testing

Strong communication

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Jobbeschreibung

Gusto is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the Payroll Canada team. You will design, build, and scale backend services and business logic powering Canadian payroll, largely from scratch, with GraphQL exposure to the frontend.

You’ll own a core domain, collaborating with Product, Design, Data, Compliance, and Operations to deliver compliant, scalable payroll solutions. The role emphasizes backend development with strong systems thinking, and requires experience handling large codebases.