About the job
About Gusto
At Gusto, our mission is to empower the small business economy. We tackle essential services like payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR, allowing business owners to concentrate on their passion and their customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we proudly support over 400,000 small businesses across the nation, while fostering a workplace that reflects and honors the diverse customers we serve. Discover more about our Total Rewards philosophy.
About the Role:
We are seeking experienced engineers to join our teams focused on enhancing core platform capabilities, optimizing existing systems for scalability, and shaping the future of Gusto's Payroll and Tax systems. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead projects from inception to completion, influencing initial feature specifications, optimizing systems towards desired outcomes, executing projects, and maintaining the code that underpins key user experiences. If you are passionate about developing sophisticated software that has a significant impact on the modern economy, we invite you to join us!
About the Team:
The Payroll team is the core of Gusto’s operations. The Pay Group teams (responsible for payroll and tax) oversee the product, operational, and service aspects that Gusto utilizes to onboard clients, process payroll, calculate taxes and deductions, pay and file with tax authorities, and ensure compliance on behalf of our clients. This domain is intricate and offers opportunities to engage in system design that simplifies processes for both internal and external customers.
Sub-Teams:
- Tax Accuracy: This group is responsible for gathering and maintaining the essential information required to ensure timely and accurate tax payments and filings for our clients, consisting of multiple teams covering various aspects of the process.
- Ledger: This team is developing a payroll ledger to monitor accrual accounting for payroll-related monetary movements, beginning to support the payroll domain, risk management, payments, and accounting.
- Engine: This team collaborates closely with the payroll compliance team to facilitate compliant payroll processes, such as minimum wage adjustments and regular pay rates.

