Senior Software Engineer, RiskPosted today$185K–$205K

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

  • Design, build, and test infrastructure capabilities that enable the Risk team: to efficiently build unique, custom-tailored experiences for existing and emerging Risk products

  • Lead well-scoped, sometimes complex projects end-to-end from technical: design through rollout partnering with Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, and Operations

  • Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world

  • Serve as a domain expert other engineers consult on for Risk platform capabilities

  • Set expectations with stakeholders on project timelines, communicating: updates and changes as the project progresses

  • Mentor engineers earlier in their careers and contribute to a healthy, high-performing team

What they're looking for

  • Identify and execute on technical debt and quality improvements within your project's domain
  • Participate in an on-call rotation, respond to reliability, security, and: performance incidents, and prioritize postmortem action items
  • Improve the productivity and happiness of your team with the tools, patterns, and documentation you build
  • + years of Software Develop Experience