5 hours ago
Base Salary
$163k - $247k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and test Gusto core products.
- Develop scalable tax-credit discovery and self-service experiences for small-business customers.
- Own complex, multi-quarter engineering projects and deliver measurable customer impact at scale.
- Work across product, data, design, platform engineering, and business teams to prototype, iterate, and launch solutions.
- Mentor engineers and help solve complex technical problems.
- Contribute to large-scale refactors and address performance and reliability issues.
- Use and evaluate AI tools and emerging AI frameworks to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver product capabilities safely.
Requirements
- Typically 8+ years of software development experience.
- Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain and create memorable customer experiences.
- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver product capabilities.
- Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks, including evaluating and scaling AI use safely across teams.
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and create measurable impact at scale.
- Experience with large-scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and end-to-end ownership of a product area.
- Ability to mentor engineers and maximize their performance and impact.
- Experience in or interest in working with Ruby on Rails.
- Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, and well-documented code.
- Ability to communicate effectively across engineering teams and with business stakeholders.
- Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay, benefits, and RSU equity.
- Two days of travel to a Gusto office are required for onboarding.
- Employees based in Denver, San Francisco, or New York generally work from the office approximately 2–3 days per week or more depending on the role.
- Remote and non-office work requires a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection.
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About Gusto
Gusto has been growing the small business economy for 15+ years. Not with just great technology, but with heart. We serve 500K+ businesses with payroll, HR, benefits, compliance, and more. Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we're the team in their corner. Licensing details: https://gusto.com/about/licenses