Principal Software Engineer, Money Group
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, Money Group at Gusto in Denver. 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.
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- Serve as a Technical Lead across multiple teams in the Money Group – setting architectural direction, unblocking engineers, and ensuring high-quality delivery aligned with long-term goals.
- Define the north-star architectural vision for the Money Group and continuously identify shorter-term projects that move us toward it.
- Architect the convergence of Gusto's People Stack (payroll, HR, benefits) and Finance Stack (banking, accounting, payments, lending) into a unified platform for small businesses.
- 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.
- Lead technical due diligence – evaluating codebases, data models, and engineering teams for compatibility with Gusto's platform.
- Manage a complex partner ecosystem.
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- Serve as a Technical Lead across multiple teams in the Money Group – setting architectural direction, unblocking engineers, and ensuring high-quality delivery aligned with long-term goals.
- Define the north-star architectural vision for the Money Group and continuously identify shorter-term projects that move us toward it.
- Architect the convergence of Gusto's People Stack (payroll, HR, benefits) and Finance Stack (banking, accounting, payments, lending) into a unified platform for small businesses.
- 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.
- Lead technical due diligence – evaluating codebases, data models, and engineering teams for compatibility with Gusto's platform.
- Manage a complex partner ecosystem.
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- Serve as a Technical Lead across multiple teams in the Money Group – setting architectural direction, unblocking engineers, and ensuring high-quality delivery aligned with long-term goals.
- Define the north-star architectural vision for the Money Group and continuously identify shorter-term projects that move us toward it.
- Architect the convergence of Gusto's People Stack (payroll, HR, benefits) and Finance Stack (banking, accounting, payments, lending) into a unified platform for small businesses.
- 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.
- Lead technical due diligence – evaluating codebases, data models, and engineering teams for compatibility with Gusto's platform.
- Manage a complex partner ecosystem.
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