Staff Backend Engineer, Payroll Platform - Scale & APIs

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Gusto is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Payroll Platform to design and evolve backend infrastructure powering payroll experiences. You will own core APIs and collaborate with multiple teams to deliver compliant, scalable solutions across the company. Responsibilities include shaping architecture, driving performance improvements, and ensuring reliability as payroll processing scales to thousands of businesses. #J-18808-Ljbffr TheWrap

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