Principal Software Engineer

Gusto is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to join their Payroll Services team. The role involves guiding projects end-to-end, influencing initial feature specs, and maintaining code that powers core experiences. The team is responsible for building a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams.

Requirements

• 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, influencing both product and team direction
• Experience working on platform products which are depended upon throughout the company
• Experience engineering, designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production
• An aptitude in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex problems, communicating technical complexity and facilitating informed tradeoffs to major stakeholders
• Experience operationalizing and scaling large interconnected production systems
• Enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment
• Experience in complex highly regulated domains
• Examples: HR, Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance

Benefits

• Full-service payroll
• Health insurance
• 401(k)s
• Expert HR
• Team management tools
• Total Rewards philosophy