14 hours ago
Base Salary
$197k - $247k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain full-stack features for the HR Experience product surface.
- Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code across frontend, backend, and data layers.
- Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, retrospectives, and cross-functional technical planning.
- Own projects end to end, including scoping, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Monitor and improve the reliability, performance, and quality of shipped features.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and lead incident response for owned systems.
- Provide technical guidance and code-review mentorship to less-tenured engineers.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack work.
- Ability to independently design, build, and ship features spanning frontend, backend, and data layers.
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language or framework, such as Ruby on Rails, Node.js, or Python/Django.
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern frontend framework, such as React or TypeScript.
- Understanding of relational database schema design, migrations, and query performance.
- Experience owning projects from scoping and technical design through deployment and monitoring.
- Strong grounding in data structures, algorithms, automated testing, and CI/CD.
- Experience partnering with product managers, designers, and engineers, with clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred experience in HR technology, payroll, or fintech.
- Preferred experience designing REST or GraphQL APIs.
- Preferred exposure to accessibility best practices.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity in the form of RSUs.
- Employees based in Denver, San Francisco, or New York are expected to work from the office approximately 2–3 days per week or more depending on the role.
- Remote or non-office work requires a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection and regular predictable attendance.
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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.