Principal Software Engineer, Growth

We’re looking for a seasoned Engineer to join our teams that work on customer-facing products, developing features and platforms to help define the visitor-to-customer journey at Gusto. Our goal is to help Gusto grow by delivering a consistently great experience across all of our products and services.

We’re looking for talented and motivated engineer to lead and grow projects end-to-end by leading the charge in coming up with a cohesive Growth-wide technical strategy, influencing EPDD leads across Growth, as well as cross-functional partners, to incorporate our technical strategy into team’s roadmap, helping teams iterate towards our platform vision, and helping teams kickoff and execute complex that contribute to the long-term success of Gusto. If you’re interested in solving complex problems and contributing to the overall strategy of growing Gusto, join us!

Here’s What You’ll Do Day-to-day

• Define, iterate and execute on technical roadmap for Acquisition and Expansion engines to drive revenue growth.
• Partner with Growth and cross-functional teams to tackle complex and ambiguous problems, translating them into engineering solutions that drive our Acquisition and Expansion platform forward.
• Identify areas for process and/or technical improvements, and take the initiative to enhance engineering processes and structures.
• Mentor and provide guidance to software engineers, fostering their growth and development.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance.
• Collaborate with engineering leads, product managers, designers, and data scientists to understand short- and long-term investment opportunities, and collectively deliver innovative solutions.
• Collaborate with all Growth teams, not only on innovative projects, but also on long-term maintainability and stability of the systems.
• Execute in different horizons based on Growth’s overall goals. This means at times, embedding in a team for multiple quarters and help kick off and drive to completion complex initiatives, and at other times jump into initiatives to assist/drive towards alignment and move on to the next area of focus.

Here’s What We’re Looking For

• • 12 years of hands-on experience, with recent 3 at high level and wide scope of impact on technical leadership.
  • 3 years of experience building an Acquisition engine to drive lead/prospect and customer counts.
  • 3 years of experience leading and executing initiatives that leverage ML to drive ACV expansion.
  • Deep understanding and experience defining technical architectures for driving revenue growth.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $215,000-231,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $250,000-270,000/yr for San Francisco & New York. Stock equity is additional. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.