The opportunity
At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
What you'll do
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, and consists of multiple teams that cover various parts of the process.
Ledger: This team is building a payroll ledger to track accrual accounting: for payroll-related money movement. This team is starting to support the payroll domain, risk, payments, and accounting.
Engine: This team works closely with the payroll compliance team to ensure: enablement of compliant pay, such as minimum wage adjustments, regular rate of pay, etc. We enable end-to-end success of payroll processing and working with various domain teams such as tax calculations, tax setup, payments, and more.
Platform: This team is developing a new platform to be the common interface: for interacting with payroll and tax data. The payroll and tax domain is highly complex; our team exists to make it easier for other application teams to interact with the payroll and tax system. We enable application and experience teams to deliver customer value faster by providing a scalable, flexible, performant, and highly understandable platform to integrate with.
Function as a Technical Lead across multiple teams in Payroll Services,: helping us keep engineers unblocked and deliver high-quality work supporting our long-term goals
Design, build, and test the foundation that supports compliant payroll for millions of people
What they're looking for
- 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, delivering: delightful products that make payroll, taxes, and compliance simple and easy
