The opportunity
We're hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to serve as a Technical Lead across multiple pods in the Money Group – Gusto's fastest-growing organization and a cornerstone of the company's transformation into the Small Business Finance Platform.
What you'll do
Serve as a Technical Lead across multiple pods in the Money Group: setting architectural direction, unblocking engineers, and ensuring high-quality delivery aligned with long-term goals.
Help define the technical vision for your domain areas within the Money: Group, and own the shorter-term projects that move us toward it.
Contribute to the architecture connecting Gusto's People Stack and Finance: Stack, owning the pieces within your teams' domains.
Lead service migration from a large Ruby-on-Rails monolith into a: service-oriented architecture, defining clean domain boundaries across money movement, lending, and tax.
Manage a complex partner ecosystem, including leading technical due diligence in vendor evaluation.
Build prototypes and proof-of-concepts to de-risk new ideas and unblock product decisions quickly.
What they're looking for
- Tackle complex, ambiguous problems in close partnership with Product: Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, and Operations.
- Drive AI-native architecture decisions: from LLM-powered transaction categorization and tax optimization to conversational financial management experiences.
- Act as a technical consultant to your teams and partner teams, contributing: to architectural coherence across the group.
- Set the bar for technical excellence: through code, design reviews, and the standards you hold the group to.
