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Gusto·New York City Metropolitan Area, United States·onsite

Staff Software Engineer, Payments / Risk

Posted 16 days ago
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Ruby on RailsReactJavaScript

About the role

What you'll do

  • Lead design, development, and testing of payments or risk platform services including payment rails, fraud prevention, and compliance features.
  • Mentor engineers and set engineering standards in a complex, large-scale Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/React environment.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, data, and financial operations teams to deliver impactful solutions.
  • Own multi-quarter projects addressing scalability, performance, and reliability challenges in financial systems.
  • Drive innovation by leveraging and experimenting with AI tools to enhance development and platform capabilities.

What you should know

  • This role requires onsite presence in New York City with 2-3 days per week expected in the office.
  • Applicants should be comfortable working in a complex financial domain involving payments, fraud, and compliance.
  • Strong ownership and experience with large scale refactors and platform reliability are critical for success.
  • Candidates will have the opportunity to mentor engineers and influence core business systems impacting millions.
  • Familiarity or interest in Ruby on Rails and a passion for building scalable money movement platforms is important.

About the company

  • Gusto is a mission-driven company focused on supporting the small business economy with payroll, HR, and financial services.
  • The company serves over 400,000 small businesses nationwide with offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York.
  • Gusto values diversity, equity, and inclusion, hiring from a wide variety of backgrounds to strengthen the company.
  • They emphasize a collaborative, test-driven engineering culture with a strong focus on security and customer trust.
  • Gusto offers competitive compensation including base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) to share company success.

Key required skills

Ruby on RailsJavaScriptReactAI toolsTDD

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