Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Gusto as a Software Engineer and contribute to the development of our customer-facing products. You will architect, build, and test features across our platform, spanning Payroll, Benefits, HR, Time, and Tax Credits. This role involves mentoring other engineers, scaling our large-scale applications, and collaborating with Product and Design teams. You will be responsible for building a product our customers love and solving complex engineering problems. The ideal candidate possesses 8+ years of software development experience, expertise in Ruby on Rails, and a passion for creating memorable customer experiences. Gusto offers competitive compensation, stock equity, and a hybrid work model.

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

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with React, GraphQL or Typescript
• Experience in payment technologies

Benefits

• Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $164,000/yr to $204,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $199,000/yr to $247,000/yr for San Francisco, New York & Seattle
• Stock equity is additional
• Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role)
• When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required