Principal Software Engineer - Contractors Payroll
About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
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Principal Software Engineer - Contractors Payroll at Gusto in New York City. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
Day-to-day expectations
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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