Staff Software Engineer

We’re hiring seasoned engineers to join our teams that work on customer-facing products, developing features and iterating across our platform. As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level, you’ll oversee projects end-to-end by influencing initial feature specs, building backend APIs, writing frontend code, and overseeing 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

• Mentor other engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems out there in very complex domains and at a large scale

• Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world

• Collaborate with our Product Management and Design 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 typically have 8+ years of software development experience

  • Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale

  • Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain

  • Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders

  • Experience in, or interest working in, Ruby on Rails 

  • Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact

  • Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your product area

  • Passion for creating memorable experiences for customers

  • Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment

  • Able to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code

  Nice to haves:

  • Experience with React, GraphQL or Typescript

  • Experience in payment technologies

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $164,000/yr to $204,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $199,000/yr to $247,000/yr for San Francisco, New York & Seattle. 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.