Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineer
About The Position
At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff—like payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR—so owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we’re proud to support more than 400,000 small businesses across the country, and we’re building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers we serve. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy . We’re hiring seasoned engineers to join our teams that work on customer-facing products, developing features and iterating across our platform. As a Gusto Staff Software Engineer at this level, you’ll oversee projects end-to-end by influencing initial feature specs, building backend APIs, writing frontend code, and overseeing ongoing improvements for deployed features. If you’re interested in building elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy, join us!
Requirements
- Successful applicants typically have 8+ years of software development experience
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale
- Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain
- Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders
- Experience in, or interest working in, Ruby on Rails
- Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact
- Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your product area
- Passion for creating memorable experiences for customers
- Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment
- Able to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code
- Please note that travel to Gusto's Denver office for onboarding is required for this position.
- When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.
Nice To Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and test Gusto’s product suite the spans across Payroll, Benefits, HR, Time, Tax Credits, and more
- 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 and Design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily
- Build a product that our customers genuinely love
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
