Staff Software Engineer, Financial InfrastructurePosted today$197K–$247K

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 ship services and APIs for money movement and financial integrations

  • Work on payments, settlements, reconciliation, and corrections involving real customer funds

  • Build and support critical workflows like payroll integration, KYB/KYC, 401k: loans, billing and invoicing, and IRA

  • 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

What they're looking for

  • Mentor other engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems: out there in very complex domains and at a large scale
  • Write clear, reliable, well-tested code that ships quickly and scales well
  • Build a product that our customers genuinely love
  • + years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms