Software Engineering Apprenticeship (Summer 2026)
About The Position
We’re launching a 6-month, full-time, paid Software Engineering Apprenticeship based in New York City or San Francisco for creative problem solvers early in their software journey. This program is designed for people who learn best by doing — building real products alongside experienced engineers in a highly supportive, hands-on environment. As an apprentice, you’ll spend much of your time pairing with teammates, asking thoughtful questions, and gradually taking ownership of meaningful work. With close mentorship and structured support, you’ll develop strong engineering fundamentals while gaining confidence and autonomy over time. This apprenticeship focuses on how you think, how you learn, and how you grow, rather than credentials, prior titles, or traditional career paths. If you’re excited to build, collaborate, and develop as an engineer while making a real impact, this program is for you. About the Team Our engineers work on both customer-facing and internal employee products, developing features and iterating across our platform to bring delightful experiences to our customers, aiding them in driving their business to be successful. You’ll close your laptop at the end of every day knowing your work is making a difference for hundreds of thousands of small businesses and their employees.. If you’re ready to hone your Software Engineering skills while creating software with far-reaching effects on our modern economy, we’d love for you to join Gusto this summer!
Requirements
- Creative thinkers who can frame a problem, test an approach, and explain their reasoning clearly.
- Curiosity and humility — you seek feedback, change your mind with new evidence, and keep going when it’s hard.
- Strong communication in a collaborative, pair‑heavy environment; you make teammates better.
- Evidence of learning and making — of any kind: you create things and can show your process (e.g., music, art, writing, community projects, physical builds, software experiments, or other self‑directed work).
- Comfort with the basics in at least one programming language and eagerness to learn the rest on the job.
- No specific degree or prior professional SWE experience is required.
Responsibilities
- Learn by doing: pair daily with engineers to design, code, test, and ship features safely and incrementally.
- Explain your thinking: talk through tradeoffs, ask clarifying questions, and make your reasoning visible in daily conversations, PRs, and design reviews.
- Practice feedback as a skill: give and receive actionable feedback, and iterate quickly with your mentor and teammates.
- Build breadth and depth: rotate pairing partners and tasks to expand your toolkit across frontend, backend, and tests.
- Grow your independence: progress from observer to driver to navigator with support, celebrating steady, compounding wins.
- Share outcomes: demo your work and reflect on what you learned as you move toward L1 readiness.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
