Principal Software Engineer, Payroll Services

Principal Software Engineer, Payroll Services Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Atlanta, GA; Austin, TX; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; Seattle, WA; Washington, DC About Gusto Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide. Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That's why we're committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. About the Role: We're hiring seasoned engineers to join our teams that work on core platform capabilities, improving our existing systems for extensibility and scalability, and building the future of Gusto's Payroll system. As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level, you'll be guiding projects end-to-end by influencing initial feature specs, understanding how to take existing systems closer to desired end states, executing on projects, and maintaining code that powers core experiences. About the Team: Payroll is the beating heart of Gusto's business. Payroll Services teams are responsible for the product, ops, and service components Gusto uses to onboard customers, process payrolls, calculate taxes & deductions, pay and file with tax agencies, and maintain compliance on behalf of the customers. The domain is highly complex and offers the opportunity to engage in system design that simplifies this for customers, both internal and external. Sub-Teams: Tax Accuracy: The Tax Accuracy group is responsible for gathering and maintaining the necessary information for us to pay and file taxes accurately and on time for our customers. Ledger: This team is building a payroll ledger to track accrual accounting for payroll-related money movement. Engine: This team works closely with the payroll compliance team to ensure enablement of compliant pay. Platform: This team is developing a new platform to be the common interface for interacting with payroll and tax data. Here's what you'll do day-to-day: Function as a Technical Lead across multiple teams in Payroll Services. Design, build, and test the foundation that supports compliant payroll for millions of people. Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world. Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams. Mentor and grow fellow engineers working to create holistic and scalable solutions. Drive the product development process from concept to launch. Improve the productivity and happiness of our teams with the services, tools, and APIs you build. Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation. Continuously stay up-to-date with advancements in AI and Machine Learning . Here's what we're looking for: Successful applicants typically have at least 15+ years of experience. Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code. Strong knowledge of data structures, data modeling, and system design. Experience working across 3+ teams. Experience working on platform products. Experience engineering, designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production. An aptitude in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex problems. Experience operationalizing and scaling large interconnected production systems. Experience in complex highly regulated domains. Please note that travel to Gusto's Denver office for onboarding is required for this position. Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $222,000/yr to $247,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $261,000/yr to $290,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week. Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds. Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-03-01