Principal Software Engineer, Growth
Seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive revenue growth, lead initiatives, and mentor engineers.
About Gusto
Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams.
About the Team:
The Growth org is a product team that focuses on driving revenue growth.
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:
- Define, iterate and execute on initiatives contributing to the Growth’s technical roadmap to drive revenue growth.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to tackle complex and ambiguous problems, translating them into engineering solutions that drive our customer acquisition and ACV expansion platform forward.
- Execute in different horizons based on Growth’s overall goals.
- Execute in different capacities based on the need of the org and initiative.
- Engage with all development teams across Gusto to align and drive towards long-term maintainability and stability of our systems.
- Mentor and provide guidance to software engineers, fostering growth and development.
- Actively participate in code reviews and maintain code quality.
Here’s what we're looking for:
- 15+ years of professional software development experience
- Hands-on experience building large scale, complex systems in a wide range of domains
- Web architecture expertise, including observability and performance
- Experience in highly cross-functional environments for highly complex products
- Experience as tech lead, overseeing large initiatives across multiple teams
- Experience in scaling Engineering organizations
- Nice to have:
- Experience building complex revenue systems that spans multiple growth areas: acquisition, expansion, experimentation, marketing and sales automation tools/integrations
- Experience in experimentation and user experience optimization
- Experience working closely with Revenue teams
- Experience building product incorporating ML and AI
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $215,000/yr to $252,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $251,000/yr to $295,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York.
Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City.