Job brief: Software Engineer, Financial Data & Payments

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Gusto's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-10 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-10.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address Gusto's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $183,000 to $245,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · Denver, CO - Hybrid; New York, NY - Hybrid; San Francisco, CA - Hybrid; Seattle, WA - Remote · San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
• Posted: 2026-11-09

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The posting asks for 10+ years of experience.

Must have

• Successful applicants have at least 10+ years of experience and the enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment
• When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid emplo…

Conditions

• Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City.
• The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.
• Reliable, consistent presence: We expect regular and predictable attendance, whether you're working in-office, hybrid, or fully remote, so that you stay closely connected to your …
• We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditio…

Main duties

• Design, build, and test the financial data systems that record every dollar Gusto moves — the ledger and subledger that serve as the system of record, the tr…
• Build reconciliation at Gusto's scale: prove that our internal records agree with bank, processor, and partner statements, and make the breaks that fall out …
• Lead variance investigation end-to-end — the tooling, instrumentation, and runbooks that turn "the numbers don't tie" into a specific root cause, and then in…
• Own the payment profile: how employers are set up to fund payroll and how employees and contractors are set up to be paid — the payment methods available and…
• Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs across the U.S.: $194k a year (997 listings, 60 employers). This listing is 10% higher.
• Across Gusto's 75 open listings, 43% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Gusto hires

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