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We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join Gusto’s Payroll Platform team, where you’ll build backend product infrastructure that powers payroll experiences across Gusto. This is a fully backend role focused on designing and evolving internal APIs and services used by other product teams to deliver accurate, compliant, and scalable payroll. You’ll own complex technical problems end-to-end, partner closely with other engineering teams, and help raise the bar on how payroll capabilities are built and consumed across the company.
The Payroll Platform team builds the foundational services that make payroll possible at Gusto. Our customers are internal product teams building payroll, time, contractor, and accountant experiences, as well as external partners through Gusto Embedded Payroll. We focus on creating reliable, performant, and well-designed APIs that abstract away payroll complexity and enable teams to move faster with confidence. Our work sits at the intersection of backend product engineering, developer experience, and large-scale systems in a highly regulated domain.
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:
Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that support core payroll workflows and are consumed by multiple Gusto engineering teams
Own a primary domain within the Payroll Platform, taking responsibility for system health, correctness, scalability, and long-term evolution
Act as a technical partner to other engineering teams, collaborating closely to understand their needs, guide platform adoption, and co-design solutions that scale across use cases
Author and drive architecture and design documents, contributing to technical direction while balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform goals
Improve system performance, reliability, and observability as we scale payroll processing for hundreds of thousands of businesses
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data, Compliance, and Operations to deliver compliant and customer-impacting solutions
Routinely leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and documentation, and help normalize and spread effective usage across the team.
Here’s what we're looking for:
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development

Staff Software Engineer, Payroll Platform at Gusto · LumiJobs

Staff Software Engineer, Payroll Platform

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