Staff Software Engineer, Growth (Orchestration Platform)
About The Position
We’re looking for seasoned full-stack software engineers to join Gusto’s Growth team building the systems and workflows that help turn customer and go-to-market signals into timely, relevant engagement experiences across the funnel. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll operate across the full product lifecycle: shaping capabilities from early definition and design through launch and long-term iteration. That means writing clean frontend code, designing and building reliable backend APIs and services, influencing product and platform direction, and taking ownership of what happens after a feature ships. If you’re drawn to work that combines technical craft with real-world impact — helping teams deliver more relevant, personalized, and effective customer experiences at scale - join us.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Experience building scalable full-stack systems that solve meaningful customer or business problems
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and drive measurable impact at scale
- Experience with large-scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of a product or platform area
- Experience designing backend APIs, data flows, and event-driven services that integrate reliably with other systems
- Strong product and platform instincts, with the ability to balance technical quality, speed, and long-term maintainability
- Ability to mentor engineers and raise the quality bar across the team
- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and unlock new product capabilities
- Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks, and sound judgment about how to evaluate and scale AI use safely and effectively
Nice To Haves
- Experience in, or interest working in, Ruby on Rails
- Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment
- Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code
- Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and test full-stack platform capabilities that power signal-driven workflows and customer engagement experiences across the funnel
- Build systems that ingest, prioritize, and route product, marketing, and sales signals into actionable next-best steps for downstream teams and tools
- Develop backend services and internal interfaces that support orchestration, decisioning, experimentation, and delivery across evolving engagement channels
- Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world, with a strong focus on performance, maintainability, and reliability
- Collaborate with Product Management, Data, Design, Platform Engineering, and go-to-market partners to understand pain points, prototype solutions, and launch iteratively
- Mentor other engineers to help solve complex technical problems across distributed systems, product workflows, and platform architecture
- Build products and platforms that internal teams love to use and that create measurable customer and business impact
Benefits
- Competitive base pay
- Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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