2 months ago
Base Salary
$163k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and test systems for employer and employee tax accounts, including registrations, authorizations, notices, filings, and tax setup.
- Build automation, bots, data exchanges, and agency-event pipelines that maintain tax-agency access and keep account data, rates, and deposit schedules accurate.
- Model jurisdiction-specific compliance rules into maintainable systems and own reliability, performance, and correctness.
- Partner with Product, Design, Tax Operations, and PEO teams to prototype, iterate on, and launch solutions.
- Mentor engineers and help the team solve complex technical problems at scale.
- Build products that customers genuinely value.
Requirements
- Typically 8+ years of software development experience.
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and deliver measurable customer impact at scale.
- Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain, with strong ownership of reliability, performance, and correctness.
- Experience designing data models and APIs for complex, rules-heavy domains such as compliance, tax, or payments.
- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new capabilities, with curiosity about emerging AI frameworks.
- Ability to mentor engineers and communicate effectively across engineering teams and business stakeholders.
- Experience in or interest in working with Ruby on Rails.
- Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code and appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay, benefits, and RSU equity.
- Travel to a Gusto office is required for onboarding.
- Employees based in Denver, San Francisco, or New York work from the office approximately 2–3 days per week; approved non-office work requires a secure, reliable, consistent internet connection.
Tech Stack
Ruby on Rails
Categories
About Gusto
Gusto builds cloud software that handles payroll, benefits, HR, and compliance for small businesses in the U.S., sold as a subscription with integrated services. Its platform runs payroll, files taxes, administers health insurance and 401(k)s, and offers tools for onboarding and time tracking. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company says it serves 500,000+ small businesses nationwide.