Full-Time Principal Software Engineer

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient backend systems to support Gusto’s Payroll products.
• Function as a Technical Lead across multiple teams in Pay Group, helping us keep engineers unblocked and deliver high-quality work supporting our long-term goals
• Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world.
• Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams.
• Mentor and grow fellow engineers working to create holistic and scalable solutions.
• Drive the product development process from concept to launch, delivering delightful products that make payroll, taxes, and compliance simple and easy.
• Continuously stay up-to-date with backend technologies and methodologies, advancements in AI and Machine Learning, and apply this knowledge to our projects.

• 15+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience in scaling Engineering organizations with a focus on individual and team development
• Experience building and maintaining resilient backend systems to support customer-facing products.
• Experience in highly cross-functional environments for highly complex products
• Experience as tech lead, overseeing projects across multiple teams
• Experience in optimizing existing systems for performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Experience developing and maintaining RESTful APIs, GraphQL endpoints, and backend services

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