Gusto is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to be a key engineer on the Financial Infrastructure team, building and owning the systems that move money and assets for Gusto Retirement. This is a hands-on role where you will own backend services and APIs end-to-end, ship production code, and work through real financial edge cases.
What You'll Do
- 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 compliance-critical workflows like payroll integration, KYC/KYB, and sales tax handling.
- Implement and maintain integrations with third-party providers for payments, tax, and compliance.
- Partner with product, compliance, and operations to scope work and deliver production-ready solutions.
- Debug production issues and improve reliability, observability, and operational tooling.
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to integrate with shared systems and platforms.
- Write clear, reliable, well-tested code that ships quickly and scales well.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms.
- Strong experience with services, APIs, and data-heavy workflows.
- Experience working on financial systems, payments, or other high-correctness domains.
- Comfortable owning systems end-to-end, including production support and operational work.
- Experience working closely with PMs and cross-functional partners to deliver scoped work.
- Pragmatic, execution-focused approach to engineering.
- Clear communicator and collaborative teammate.
- Experience with Ruby on Rails or a comparable backend framework.
Technical Stack
- Ruby on Rails
Team & Environment
The Financial Infrastructure team owns the core money and asset flow systems for Gusto Retirement. We’re a senior team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary range: $189,000/yr to $236,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $223,000/yr to $278,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York.
- Additional stock equity.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role based in Denver, San Francisco, New York City, or Scottsdale.
Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
