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Gusto

Senior Staff Engineer - Tax Platform Engineering

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about 5 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USASenior / Staff+
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Base Salary

$223k - $278k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and test the platform that supports tax compliance for millions of people.
  • Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world.
  • Collaborate on complex problems with cross-functional teams.
  • Improve team productivity and happiness with the services and tools you build.
  • Build guardrails into the Tax platform for safe AI interactions.
  • Engage in a supportive environment to drive productivity and innovation.
  • Own and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for your domain.
  • Identify and prioritize long-term investments to improve foundational systems.
  • Lead improvements to incident response processes and tooling.
  • Mentor and develop engineers on your team.

Requirements

  • At least 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Experience in designing and developing robust, distributed systems.
  • Ability to influence and guide multiple teams on scaling and optimizing products.
  • Experience architecting and testing large-scale production code.
  • Aptitude for simplifying complex problems.
  • Strong communication skills for technical complexity.
  • Enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment.
  • Ability to write maintainable, well-documented code.
  • Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software.
  • Experience in regulated and high-risk domains is preferred.
  • Familiarity with current AI tools and their applications.
  • Mentorship experience in effective AI usage is a plus.
  • Bonus: Experience with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and React.

Benefits

  • Competitive base pay and equity (RSUs) for all full-time employees.
  • Flexible work arrangements with hybrid office expectations.
  • Supportive work environment focused on innovation and productivity.

Tech Stack

ReactRubyRuby on RailsTypeScript