Staff Software Engineer, Reporting Platform (Frontend)

Gusto, Inc. • San Francisco, CA

13d • $200,000 - $247,000 • Hybrid

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.
About the Role:
The Reporting Platform team at Gusto empowers business owners to make better decisions with data and insights through reports and visualizations that span our product lines. As a member of our Reporting Platform team, you will create and maintain reports and enable engineering teams to deposit and consume data from our reporting platform. The Platform organization at Gusto is in its early stages of building foundational components that can be reused consistently across our product lines. This is an exciting opportunity for engineers passionate about platform engineering and data at scale. We are looking for a talented frontend-leaning full stack software engineer with experience building and maintaining SaaS-based solutions.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software development experience. You have been a technical owner for initiatives that have spanned multiple development teams.
• Highly proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, TypeScript
• Very strong understanding of SaaS fundamentals. You know how to build and ship SaaS products safely and monitor them in production. You are a go-to person in your organization for complex technical issues. You can take highly ambiguous problems and clarify them based on business context. You are experienced at breaking down these projects, scaffolding them for teams, and helping them execute their achievement.
• Members of our platform teams must be excellent communicators. You will spend time interacting with technical counterparts across engineering to understand their problems and help them onboard our solutions.
• Technologies change over time. To succeed in this role, you must jump into unfamiliar areas and quickly develop expertise. We are looking for someone excited about learning new domains and quickly building deep expertise in our technical systems and how our business works.
• You value breaking down problems and quickly deploying work to production to gather learnings and iterate.

Responsibilities

• Collaboratively design and implement reports and visualizations across Gusto’s product suite in our Ruby on Rails/React-based stack.
• Migrate reports from our legacy infrastructure (Rails/MySQL) to our new reporting platform (Rails/Cube/Clickhouse).
• Frequently demonstrate your work to your team and the broader engineering organization.
• Improve the quality of our offerings by participating in support rotations and maintaining a prioritized backlog of technical debt and SRE improvements.
• Lead and mentor fellow engineers in tackling complex technical challenges at scale.
• Prototype, iterate, and launch new features quickly and efficiently.
• Foster a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and innovation, building products our customers love.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees