Principal Software Engineer Pay Group Engineering
Gusto is a payroll and HR platform that helps small businesses pay domestic and international employees, manage benefits, and automate compliance.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
Projects
About Gusto
Gusto serves small and mid-sized businesses with payroll processing, employee benefits administration, and HR tools in one platform. Users can run payroll, manage health insurance, hire globally, and pay international contractors in local currency or USDC stablecoins. The platform automates payroll tax filings across multiple states and integrates with tools like QuickBooks and Xero.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will guide projects across Payroll Services, design and build compliant payroll foundations, scale Ruby, Rails, TypeScript, and React applications, solve complex systems problems, mentor engineers, drive products from concept to launch, and build services, tools, and APIs.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience
- Ability to build maintainable, structured, and documented code
- Strong knowledge of data structures, data modeling, and system design
- Experience working across three or more teams
- Experience with platform products
- Experience building and supporting large-scale production systems
- Experience operationalizing and scaling interconnected production systems
- Experience in regulated domains such as HR, payroll, taxes, or compliance
- Experience using AI tools to build and test products
- Understanding of evaluating AI-driven outputs
- Knowledge of backend technologies and AI frameworks
Responsibilities
- Lead technical work across multiple Payroll Services teams
- Design, build, and test compliant payroll foundations
- Scale Ruby, Rails, TypeScript, and React applications
- Collaborate on complex systems problems with cross-functional teams
- Mentor and develop engineers
- Drive product development from concept to launch
- Build services, tools, and APIs
- Apply AI and machine learning knowledge to projects
- Evaluate AI-driven outputs
Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)
