Senior Staff Software Engineer, Money Group

Business Money: Business Money is building the financial operating system for small businesses on Gusto. We help owners manage how money flows in and out of their business – from paying bills and running payroll on time, to accessing capital and controlling employee expenses. Our tools (expense management, lending/payroll protection, cash flow insights, invoicing) give business owners more confidence and control over their cash flow so they can focus on building their business. Whether it's a Money Dashboard that flags payroll risks before they happen, or a Payroll Bridge loan that covers a cash shortfall, we're shaping solutions that make a real difference for SMBs.

Consumer Money: Consumer Money exists to help every employee achieve financial peace of mind through the connection between their employment and their personal finances. Our teams build the products that give workers more control over their money – on-demand pay, high-yield cash accounts, automated savings, and credit-building features – all anchored to the paycheck relationship Gusto already powers. We earn a lasting relationship with members by reducing financial stress and helping them keep more of what they earn.

Tax Credits: Tax Credits builds automated tax credit products – starting with R&D credits – directly integrated into Business Money's financial engine. By embedding credit eligibility and filing into the same data model that powers accounting and cash-flow insights, we turn annual tax savings into an automated, always-on lever for small businesses.

Payments: Payments Engineering owns the infrastructure that moves money across Gusto – ACH, real-time payments, disbursements, and fund flows that underpin payroll, lending, and all financial products in the group. This team ensures money moves reliably, compliantly, and increasingly in real time.

Serve as a Technical Lead across multiple pods in the Money Group – setting architectural direction, unblocking engineers, and ensuring high-quality delivery aligned with long-term goals.

Help define the technical vision for your domain areas within the Money Group, and own the shorter-term projects that move us toward it.

Contribute to the architecture connecting Gusto's People Stack and Finance Stack, owning the pieces within your teams' domains.

Lead service migration from a large Ruby-on-Rails monolith into a service-oriented architecture, defining clean domain boundaries across money movement, lending, and tax.

Manage a complex partner ecosystem, including leading technical due diligence in vendor evaluation.

Build prototypes and proof-of-concepts to de-risk new ideas and unblock product decisions quickly.

Tackle complex, ambiguous problems in close partnership with Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, and Operations.

Drive AI-native architecture decisions – from LLM-powered transaction categorization and tax optimization to conversational financial management experiences.

Act as a technical consultant to your teams and partner teams, contributing to architectural coherence across the group.

Set the bar for technical excellence – through code, design reviews, and the standards you hold the group to.

Mentor fellow engineers, contribute to the growth of senior and staff engineers, and help build healthy, high-performing teams.

10+ years of software engineering experience (successful applicants typically meet or exceed this).

Deep, hands-on experience building financial infrastructure in a regulated environment — account/balance management, money movement, card systems, lending, etc.

Proven track record of engineering, scaling, and operating large, interconnected production systems.

Experience contributing to technical vision and driving multi-quarter architectural initiatives across one or more teams, and ensuring strong technical stewards drive execution.

Demonstrated ability to own team-level OKRs and contribute to the group's technical strategy.

Ability to bring clarity to complex problems – communicating technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders, surfacing risks and opportunities early.

A track record of raising the technical bar – through code quality, design rigor, testing and security best practices, and the standards you set for those around you.

Comfort with AI-assisted development tools and a habit of staying current with emerging approaches to building software.

Thrives in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift, new product areas and teams are being stood up, and the ability to move from prototype to production quickly is valued.

Our cash compensation for this role is targeted at $189,000–$236,000 per year in Denver and most remote locations, and $223,000–$278,000 per year in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York. Stock equity is offered in addition. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the ranges listed above.

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.

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