Staff Software Engineer - Retirement Finance Platform

Gusto; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Competitive base pay & benefits

Job summary

Gusto is seeking a senior software engineer to own backend systems for money movement and financial integrations within the Retirement domain. You’ll ship production-grade services end-to-end, working closely with product, compliance, and operations to translate complex financial requirements into reliable software.

You’ll join a senior Financial Infrastructure team that focuses on payments, settlements, tax and compliance integrations, and related workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms.
• Experience with services, APIs, and data-heavy workflows.
• Experience working on financial systems, payments, or other high-correctness domains.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship services and APIs for money movement and financial integrations.
• Work on payments, settlements, reconciliation, and corrections involving real customer funds.
• Build and support critical workflows like payroll integration, KYB/KYC, 401k loans, billing and invoicing, and IRA.
• Mentor engineers to maximize performance and impact.
• Write clear, reliable, well-tested code that ships quickly and scales.

Skills

8+ years exp

APIs & services

Financial systems

End-to-end ownership

PM collaboration

Execution-focused

Clear communication

Mentoring engineers

Ruby on Rails

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Job description

Gusto is seeking a senior software engineer to own backend systems for money movement and financial integrations within the Retirement domain. You’ll ship production-grade services end-to-end, working closely with product, compliance, and operations to translate complex financial requirements into reliable software.

You’ll join a senior Financial Infrastructure team that focuses on payments, settlements, tax and compliance integrations, and related workflows.