Staff Software Engineer, Core Products

About the role

We're looking for seasoned full-stack software engineers to join the teams behind Gusto's customer-facing products. As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll operate across the full product lifecycle: shaping features from early spec and design through to launch and long-term iteration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test Gusto core products such as Payroll, Benefits, HR, Retirement, Gusto Money, Gusto Solo, and Gusto Pro, among others
• Mentor other engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems out there in very complex domains and at a large scale
• Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world
• Collaborate with our Product Management, Data, Design, and Platform Engineering teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily
• Build products that our customers genuinely love

Requirements

• Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain; passion for creating memorable experiences for customers
• Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities
• Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks, applying and sharing best practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely across teams
• Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale
• Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your product area
• Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience

Skills

• Strong understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Experience with back-end technologies (Ruby, Rails, Node.js, React, etc.)
• Experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices
• Experience with version control systems (Git)
• Experience with database management (SQL, NoSQL)
• Experience with API design and implementation

Benefits

• Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs)
• Two day travel to a Gusto office for onboarding
• Flexible work schedule with 2-3 days in the office per week (or more depending on role)

Pay

• $163,000–$204,000 in Denver & most remote locations
• $197,000–$247,000 for San Francisco & New York
• Stock equity is additional

Schedule

• Hybrid work model with 2-3 days in the office per week (or more depending on role)