5 days ago
Base Salary
$191k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own outcomes across the full expansion funnel, including recommendations, nurture journeys, and conversion experiences.
- Shape technical approaches and scalable architecture for expansion products and initiatives.
- Scope, ship, measure, and iterate on experiments and product capabilities under time constraints.
- Partner independently with Product, Design, and Data Science to shape the roadmap and prioritize opportunities.
- Provide technical direction through code review, mentoring, delegation, and engineering planning.
- Lead multi-quarter initiatives from early concept through measurable business impact.
Requirements
- Typically 10+ years of software development experience, including building and shipping full-stack customer-facing products at scale.
- Product-minded approach focused on customer problems, meaningful metrics, and independent cross-functional execution.
- Experience in growth, lifecycle, or conversion-focused contexts such as onboarding, upsell, personalization, or recommendations, or demonstrated ability to operate in this way.
- Experience owning multi-quarter initiatives, large-scale refactors, performance and reliability work, and technical direction for a product area.
- Track record of shipping, measuring, iterating, identifying opportunities, mentoring engineers, and leading through influence.
- Ability to build maintainable, well-structured, well-documented code and communicate effectively with engineering teams and business stakeholders.
- Experience using AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, or deliver product capabilities.
- Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, and TypeScript experience or interest is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay, benefits, and RSU equity; stock equity is additional to the stated cash compensation.
- Travel to a Gusto office is required for onboarding.
- Employees based near Denver, San Francisco, New York City, or applicable Symmetry offices are expected to work onsite approximately 2–3 designated days per week or more depending on the role.
- Approved remote or non-office work requires a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection and regular predictable attendance.
Tech Stack
Categories
Full StackGrowth Engineering
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.