Software Engineer (Sr. Staff)

We’re hiring deeply experienced engineers to join our teams that work on our customer-facing products developing features and iterating across our platform. As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level you’ll oversee large-scale projects end-to-end by driving technical innovation and ongoing improvements for deployed features. If you’re interested in building elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy join us!

Here’s what you’ll do day to day:

• Architect build and test Gusto’s product suite the spans across Payroll Benefits HR Time Tax Credits and more

• Lead other engineers to innovate on some of the hardest technical problems out there in very complex domains and at a large scale

• Drive in scaling one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world

• Own the cross-functional alignment with Product Management Design and Business teams to understand customer pain points come up with solutions and then prototype iterate and launch daily

• Build a product that our customers genuinely love

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Successful applicants will typically have 12+ years of professional software development experience

• Experience leading the innovation of customer-facing products and technical management of large projects end-to-end

• Drive the quality of writing testing and debugging code for highly reliable production systems at scale

• Advanced data modeling skills and hands-on building well-structured easily maintainable well-documented code

• Passion for creating memorable experiences for customers

• Expertise in complex product development problems -- we use Rails & React

• Appreciation for a collaborative test-driven environment

• Experience in one of these would be nice but not required:

  • HR Payroll Payments Fintech or Tax products

  • AI/Machine Learning

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $193000/yr to $231000/yr in Denver & most remote locations and $228000/yr to $272000/yr for San Francisco & New York. Stock equity is additional. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.