Top Engineering Jobs in New York City, NY

Build and own backend services and APIs supporting retirement money movement, payments, settlements, reconciliation, compliance integrations, payroll, and financial workflows. The role involves shipping reliable production code, debugging incidents, improving observability, partnering with product, compliance, and operations, and mentoring engineers. Candidates should have extensive software engineering experience, financial systems expertise, end-to-end ownership, and Ruby on Rails or comparable backend framework experience.

Architect and build native iOS and Android financial products using SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, and GraphQL. Lead mobile architecture, infrastructure, testing, release pipelines, and multi-quarter initiatives while applying AI workflows. Collaborate cross-functionally in a regulated banking environment, resolve ambiguous technical problems, maintain performance and security, and mentor engineers across both platforms.

Architect and develop scalable full-stack benefits platforms, including customer-facing web applications, shared services, benefits workflows, and AI-driven interfaces. The role involves frontend and backend development, system scalability, observability, CI/CD, personalization, and recommendation capabilities. The engineer will mentor colleagues, establish AI-native development practices, influence technical roadmaps, and partner with Marketing, Sales, Operations, and leadership to deliver reliable benefits shopping experiences.

Own full-stack HR Experience features from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident response. Write maintainable code, collaborate with product and design, participate in engineering ceremonies, improve system reliability and performance, and mentor less-tenured engineers. The role requires strong backend and frontend development, relational database expertise, software engineering fundamentals, end-to-end project ownership, and clear technical communication.

Design, build, test, and scale Gusto’s payments infrastructure and platform. Make architectural decisions focused on fault tolerance, scalability, and modularity; modernize Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React systems; collaborate across engineering, product, design, data science, and operations; deliver software supporting millions of businesses; and mentor fellow engineers.

Lead and develop the Money Movement engineering team responsible for reliable, compliant payment execution across ACH, wires, real-time payments, checks, international, and stablecoin rails. Manage hiring, coaching, technical execution, on-call ownership, SLOs, and error budgets for tier-one systems. Drive migration from the monolith to a standalone Payments Service with clean API contracts, collaborate with product and operational stakeholders, and contribute hands-on through code reviews and programming when needed.

Design, build, test, and scale Gusto’s tax credits products using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/React. Lead complex, multi-quarter engineering projects, address refactoring, performance, and reliability challenges, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, Design, and Platform teams. Mentor engineers, leverage AI tools and emerging AI frameworks, and deliver maintainable products that improve customer experiences at scale.

Design, build, test, and operate Gusto core customer-facing products across frontend and backend. Own multi-quarter projects, scale Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React systems, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, data, design, and platform teams, and iterate on features that deliver measurable customer impact.

Lead full‑stack development for Gusto's Time and Scheduling product: design, build, test, and iterate frontend and backend systems. Mentor engineers, own multi‑quarter projects, address large‑scale refactors, performance and reliability, and collaborate with product, design, data, and platform teams to deliver customer‑focused features.

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.