Senior Software Engineer

  • Remote - United States

Remote

Software Development

Senior

Job description

Guideline is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our expanding Payroll and Integrations team. You will join a distributed team of remote employees and employees based near our offices. As a Senior Engineer on an agile team, you will build upon our growing line of products that bring the possibility of a safe retirement to more people.

What You Will Work On

  • Build reliable and resilient integrations with external payroll systems to automate and enhance the retirement planning experience for our customers.
  • Develop APIs for web applications that manage sensitive financial assets and important business logic.
  • Develop features that improve complex processes and systems, making them more robust and performant with less human intervention.
  • Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and infrastructure with a strong focus on security, scalability, and performance.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize backend infrastructure, ensuring high availability and reliability.
  • Champion best practices in software development, including code reviews, test automation, and continuous integration, ensuring code quality and operational excellence.
  • Write clear, comprehensive documentation for system architecture, design decisions, and operational procedures.
  • Work collaboratively with engineers, product managers, third party vendors, and other key stakeholders to bring new products and features to our customers.

What We’re Looking For

  • 4+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend software products, systems, and 3rd party API integrations.
  • Expertise in Ruby programming language and Ruby on Rails web application framework.
  • Working knowledge of relational databases, database schema design, and designing APIs.
  • Familiarity with DevSecOps principles and integrating security into the development lifecycle.
  • Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning skills.
  • Familiarity with building and scaling a distributed systems environment built with Kubernetes, Docker, and GCP or similar tools.

More about Guideline

Everyone should have a simple, affordable way to save for retirement. At Guideline, our plans are low cost and highly automated. This makes it easy for companies to offer a valuable benefit—and easy for people to invest in their financial future with confidence.

Compensation

At Guideline, we believe compensation should be fair and equitable. We take a data-driven approach to set our compensation bands; the successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and work location. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Please speak with a recruiter for additional information regarding our tier locations.

  • Metro+:

The base salary range for this position is $150,500 - $208,500 annually.

  • Metro:

The base salary range for this position is $134,000 - $192,500 annually.

  • National:

The base salary range for this position is $130,500 - $189,000 annually.

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible to receive equity in the form of Incentive Stock Options (ISOs).

At Guideline, base salary is just one component of the overall Total Rewards package offered to employees.  All employees are offered comprehensive benefits and perks to help support you and your family.

  • Health

    • Medical, dental, and vision insurance — We offer multiple plan options with varying company premium contributions

      • Opt-out credit for waiving coverage
    • Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account

    • Company paid disability and life insurance

    • Optional Voluntary life insurance

    • Mental health benefit navigation with Rula for employees and dependents

  • Parental Leave

    • Paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
  • Generous Time Off

    • Flexible time off in addition to company holidays — We observe the NYSE Holiday Calendar
  • 401(k) Plan

    • We use our own platform and contribute 100% of employee contributions up to 5%
  • Other Benefits

    • 1-month paid Sabbatical after 5 years of employment
    • Annual learning and development stipend — We reimburse approved professional development expenses, up to $750 per employee per year

Guideline provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  Additionally, Guideline participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and contact us at [email protected].

Guideline is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal information of our applicants. Please refer to Guideline’s Privacy Policy for information about our privacy and security practices.

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Expected Salary Range

$130,500—$208,500 USD

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