Principal Software Engineer, Gusto
People OS
$250-290k
1-2 days a week in office
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Open for applications
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$250-290k
1-2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where work empowers a better life.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years of professional software development experience
- Experience in scaling engineering organizations with a focus on individual and team development
- Web & Mobile app development expertise, including release management, observability, and performance
- Experience as a technical lead, overseeing the work of multiple teams on projects
- Experience architecting, building and testing large-scale production level code
- Proven experience in Generative AI, Machine Learning, LLM is nice to have. You should have a track record of successfully applying techniques to real-world projects
- An aptitude for tackling complex and ambiguous problems, distilling them into effective engineering solutions that drive innovation
- Experience in highly cross-functional environments for highly complex products preferred
- Experience in mobile, growth, core infrastructure (payments, fraud, credit) and user experience optimization preferred
What the job involves
- As a Principal Engineer you’ll be helping to lead, shape, and execute on our strategy to support scalable communications to our customers across all of Gusto’s communication channels
- Be a technical leader driving and influencing the overall communications platform Gusto leverages to send critical and important requests and messages to our customers so that they can stay compliant as a business
- Lead and help design the overall strategy for product communications at Gusto
- Own what you build end to end as you architect, implement, review, test, and iterate Gusto’s Comms Platform
- Design highly scalable systems that drive the business growth for the next decade
- Tackle a wide variety of technical problems throughout the stack and contribute daily to all parts of our product code base
- Partner with product, design, data, growth, marketing, and operations to push the boundaries of what our Comms Platform can support
- Work alongside peer engineers to create impact and outcomes for our customers
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
For many small businesses, vital administrative tasks such as payroll, taxes, and benefits are manual tasks that take time and energy which many SMB owners don’t have. The three co-founders of Gusto – all coming from small business backgrounds – collaborated on a Fintech company that would handle employee payments, benefits administration, and compliance support specifically for small businesses.
The company may have started slowly, as the founders focused on nailing each individual aspect of Gusto’s operations, but has now skyrocketed to unicorn status with more than 200,000 customers and a multi-billion dollar valuation. In 2021, Gusto began acquiring other companies to strengthen its offering and its position in a competitive market, including two other fintech startups, Ardius and Symmetry.
Through its continued acquisitions and fundraising efforts, the company has carved out a strong position for itself in the space. Although Gusto has found itself impacted by the macroeconomic situation, through the significant effect it has had on its clientele, the company still appears positive for the future after raising funds in 2023 that will see it reach key profitability benchmarks. It continues to consolidate its platform, for example by integrating with OpenComp to grant its users access to the company's Compensation Intelligence Platform.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2022
$55m
SERIES E
Aug 2021
$175m
SERIES E
Total funding: $706.1m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus a variety of mental health resources
- Flexible vacation - Gusties are encouraged to take the time off they need to continue doing great work
- Fertility treatments, parental leave, pregnancy termination, caregiving, gender-affirming surgery, hormone treatments, transgender-inclusive services, and more
- If you work at one of our homebases, enjoy food, drinks, and good conversation — on us
- Celebrate 5 or 10 years at Gusto and take a month off to recharge
- Take advantage of internet, phone, commuter, and wellness stipends each month, along with a WFH stipend and cash for anniversaries
Company values
- Embody a service mindset - Never stop advocating for the needs of others
- Dream big, then make it real - Be ambitious. Show and do, rather than tell and talk
- Be proud of the how - Ensure deep integrity in everything you do
- Embrace an ownership mentality - Take initiative to leave things better than you found them
- Debate then commit - Share openly, question respectfully, and once a decision is made, commit fully
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Joshua Reeves
(CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford and went onto co-found Gusto in 2011.
Tomer London
(CPO)Has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. Was a Researcher at Intel, and then interned at Bump Technologies. Co-founded Vizmo, a mobile self-service technologies company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.
Edward Kim
(Head of Engineering)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Was Senior Project Engineer at Volkswagen of America Electronics Research Lab and then co-founded Picwing, a printed photos company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.
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