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 Gusto core billing platform: usage jobs, subscriptions, orders, invoice generation, payments, reporting, accounting integrations.
Mentor other engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems: out there in very complex domains and at a large scale.
Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world.
Collaborate with our Product Engineering, Product Management, Data, and: Design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily.
Build products that our customers genuinely love.
Successful applicants typically have 8+ years of software development experience.
What they're looking for
- Passion for creating scalable, efficient platforms for users.
- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve: testing, and deliver new platform capabilities.
- Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks , applying and: sharing best practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely across teams
- Experience in building large high throughput distributed systems.