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The role spans technical leadership across multiple teams, combining hands‑on system design with mentorship and cross‑functional influence in a heavily regulated space.
Responsibilities
• Act as a technical lead across multiple teams, keeping engineers unblocked and guiding delivery toward long‑term goals
• Design, build, and test the foundations that support compliant payroll at scale
• Help evolve and scale a large Ruby on Rails and TypeScript/React codebase
• Partner with product, design, data science, compliance, and operations on ambiguous, cross‑domain problems
• Mentor engineers and improve team productivity through shared services, tools, and APIs
• Drive the product development lifecycle from concept through launch
Requirements
• 15 or more years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong grasp of data structures, data modeling, and system design
• Track record of working across three or more teams and shaping both product and technical direction
• Experience building platform products relied on by other parts of the company
• History of designing, building, and operating large‑scale production systems
• Background in highly regulated domains such as payroll, taxes, HR, or compliance
• Hands‑on use of AI tools to build, test, and iterate, with clear success criteria for evaluating outputs
Nice to have
• Enthusiasm for collaborative, test‑driven engineering environments
• Active interest in emerging backend and AI frameworks, with regular experimentation and contribution to shared tooling
Benefits and work setup
• Targeted cash compensation ranges: $215,000-$252,000 in Denver and most remote locations; $251,000-$295,000 in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York, with equity on top
• Hybrid expectation of roughly 2-3 days per week in a designated office
• Reliable, secure internet connection required when working outside the office Role overview
A principal-level engineering position focused on the payroll and tax domain that underpins how customers are paid, how taxes are calculated, and how filings are submitted on their behalf.
It is a senior individual contributor opportunity with end-to-end ownership of platform capabilities used across the organization.
