Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments and Risk

Gusto is a company on a mission to grow the small business economy by handling essential services like payroll and HR. They are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join their Risk Engineering team, focusing on building and improving the infrastructure for their payments and risk systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and test infrastructure capabilities that enable the Risk team to efficiently build unique, custom tailored experiences for existing and emerging Risk products. Collaborate with the broader Risk organization on platform strategy
• 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, Operations, and other cross-functional teams
• Build the software platform that powers multiple 1st and 3rd party products and serves millions of businesses
• Mentor and grow fellow engineers working to create holistic and scalable solutions

Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with expertise in building scalable Fintech platforms for complex systems
• Experience applying AI tools to accelerate development and improve system reliability. Familiar with using AI for code generation, testing, and documentation
• Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software as well as designing and developing robust, distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages
• Experience influencing and guiding the work of multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products
• Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production level code that is maintainable, structured, and well-documented
• An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
• Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
• Experience in one of these domains is highly preferred: Payments and/or Risk
• Bonus: Experience with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and React