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Growth Engineer, Acquisition Team

We are hiring an engineer with a passion for frontend development to join our Growth team. You will be directly responsible for growing our business and will have a significant impact on the continued success of Gusto. The right person also enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams to create experiments, campaigns, and improve our website to attract new customers.

About Gusto

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 200,000 businesses nationwide.

Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life.

At Gusto, we are building the world-class people platform for small businesses, and our growth engineering team is laser-focused on finding new and innovative ways to bring users on to it. The team operates in a fast-paced, data-driven environment where the goal is to optimize for learning to improve all points of the journey of becoming a customer.

We strongly value end-to-end ownership. Gusto’s growth engineers apply an entrepreneurial mindset to their day-to-day, working cross-functionally to master the ins and outs of the business, and using that knowledge to guide their work across a diverse tech stack.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Create new experiences on Gusto.com that introduce Gusto to the world
• Build and maintain product pages on Gusto.com that meet SEO requirements
• Build and run experiments to determine what experiences attract new customers effectively
• Use Audience Targeting to ensure that the right person sees the right experience at the right time
• Optimize the website performance and structure for SEO

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 4+ years of technical experience
• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JS
• Experience with frontend frameworks like React
• Experience with web application frameworks 
• Experience turning hi-fi mockups into elegantly executed code
• Ideally experience with audience targeting tools like Tealium, Intercom, etc. 
• A passion for well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code
• A history of strong cross-functional collaboration with marketing and/or other non-technical teams
• Bonus for having experience with Ruby on Rails
• Bonus for experience optimizing web.dev metrics, lighthouse scores. Such as improving LCP, TFB, TTI, and CLS.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.

Our company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Our company considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].