Senior Software Engineer (Risk)

• We’re hiring engineers to join our Risk Engineering team, which works on core platform capabilities, improves our existing systems for extensibility and scalability, and builds the future of Gusto’s Risk system
• As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll lead well-scoped — and sometimes technically or organizationally complex projects end-to-end: driving technical design, partnering with product, design, and data teams to plan and deliver, and writing the code that powers core experiences
• You’ll be a domain expert other engineers turn to, and you’ll set the technical example for your team
• If you’re interested in building elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy, join us!
• In order to enable growth for Gusto and our customers, the Risk org is responsible for defining best-in-class user experiences in order to mitigate financial and reputation risk. This team within our Risk Org is responsible for building the infrastructure for a.) bad actor platform capabilities to prevent fraudsters from abusing Gusto’s platform while improving false positive rate and, b.) the credit underwriting and collections platform to enable faster and greater access to credit while minimizing financial loss
• Design, build, and test infrastructure capabilities that enable the Risk team to efficiently build unique, custom-tailored experiences for existing and emerging Risk products
• Lead well-scoped, sometimes complex projects end-to-end from technical design through rollout partnering with Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, and Operations
• Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world
• Serve as a domain expert other engineers consult on for Risk platform capabilities
• Set expectations with stakeholders on project timelines, communicating updates and changes as the project progresses
• Mentor engineers earlier in their careers and contribute to a healthy, high-performing team
• Identify and execute on technical debt and quality improvements within your project’s domain
• Participate in an on-call rotation, respond to reliability, security, and performance incidents, and prioritize postmortem action items
• Improve the productivity and happiness of your team with the tools, patterns, and documentation you build

Benefits

• Gender-affirming care and support
• Family care and support, including family planning and fertility benefits
• A variety of mental health resources
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
• Free meals and refreshments at the office (conversation and community is an added bonus!)
• Paid vacation, sick time, bereavement, and holidays, paid leaves, sabbatical, and more- Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
• Experience applying AI tools to accelerate development, testing, and documentation and directing, reviewing, and correcting AI-generated work based on your own understanding of the system
• Experience owning a project end-to-end from technical design through rollout while coordinating with product, design, and data partners
• Enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment
• Experience designing, building, and testing production-quality code and architecture for projects that may be technically or organizationally complex
• Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code
• 8+ years of Software Develop Experience
• Experience building fault-tolerant, reliable software
• An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
• Comfortable setting technical direction for a project and making tradeoffs between competing priorities (e.g. customer needs vs. technical needs, short-term vs. long-term)