What you'll do
- Lead design and development of payments or risk platform services including payment rails, fraud detection, and compliance features.
- Operate across the full software lifecycle from architecture to long-term performance ownership in a large-scale, complex domain.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, data, and operations teams to deliver impactful solutions.
- Contribute to scaling and maintaining one of the largest Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/React applications globally.
- Drive innovation by leveraging and experimenting with AI tools to enhance development and platform capabilities.
What you should know
- Ideal candidates have 8+ years of experience and a passion for building scalable financial platforms.
- Applicants should be comfortable working onsite in the San Francisco Bay Area with some required office days.
- The role offers the chance to solve complex engineering problems impacting millions of users.
- Candidates will engage deeply with AI tools and frameworks to improve platform capabilities and development speed.
- Strong communication and mentorship skills are essential to collaborate across teams and maximize impact.
About the company
- Gusto is a mission-driven company focused on supporting small businesses with payroll, HR, and financial services.
- The company values diversity and inclusion, hiring from a wide variety of backgrounds to strengthen the team.
- Gusto operates with a hybrid work model, maintaining offices in San Francisco, Denver, and New York.
- They emphasize employee ownership and success through competitive pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs).
- AI is a core part of their workflow, with a culture encouraging experimentation and fluency in emerging technologies.
Key required skills
Ruby on RailsJavaScriptReactAI toolsTDD