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Lead UX vision and strategy across Business Money, Consumer Money, Payments, and Risk. Identify cross-team, high-impact opportunities; influence product strategy and OKRs; define AI-first financial UX; do hands-on design and prototyping; mentor designers; and evolve design system patterns to scale cohesive, trustworthy financial experiences.

Lead architecture and delivery of Gusto's Commerce Platform (product catalog, promotion engine, subscription, entitlements). Partner with product, data science, and cross-functional teams to drive large, multi-quarter platform projects, ensure reliability and SLOs, mentor engineers, and promote AI-augmented development and platform adoption.

This role involves leading technical projects across multiple teams, designing scalable systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers, focusing on payroll and tax systems at Gusto.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Salesforce Apex solutions supporting Sales and Customer Experience teams. Use AI coding assistants throughout development, apply Salesforce architecture and release-management practices, deploy with sf CLI, and build reliable production systems at scale. Improve deployed features, measure impact, document code, and contribute beyond Salesforce when needed. Translate ambiguous requirements into scalable technical solutions and business value.

The Principal Engineer will lead technical direction across multiple teams, design architecture for financial systems, mentor engineers, and drive multi-year transformations in the Money Group.

Own and scale Gusto's VC and PE partnership strategy, building programmatic, high-leverage ecosystem motions. Lead partner portfolio decisions, design repeatable programs with Marketing/Events/Sales, track ARR and pipeline impact, and represent Gusto externally to drive founder and investor engagement.

Own and improve Gusto's AI-first service intelligence layer across voice, chat, and email. Define intent understanding, escalation/handoff, context ingestion, and knowledge retrieval. Build models, evals, and monitoring; iterate rapidly; dismantle legacy workflows; collaborate with GTM, Sales, and Service; and track metrics (solve rate, satisfaction, escalation accuracy, handle time, customer effort) to drive seamless customer resolutions and operational efficiency.

Lead the technical design and architecture of Gusto's Commerce Platform, mentoring engineers and ensuring service reliability while collaborating across teams.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll design, build, and test Gusto's core platform services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with various teams to solve complex engineering problems.

Own and scale IT General Controls across NetSuite, Workday, Salesforce, and related enterprise applications. Lead access governance, segregation-of-duties processes, change management, audit readiness, evidence collection, and remediation. Partner with Internal Audit, External Audit, Security, Finance, and application owners on SOX compliance. Develop AI-native continuous controls monitoring, automated testing, anomaly detection, and governance for internal AI systems while modernizing the broader controls environment.