Staff Software Engineer, Core Products
$163,000–$247,000 year
Hybrid · New York City, New York, United States or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Staff Software Engineer for Gusto's core product teams. Design, build, and test core products (Payroll, Benefits, HR, Retirement, Gusto Money, Gusto Solo, Gusto Pro), mentor engineers, scale a large Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React application, collaborate with Product Management, Data, Design, and Platform Engineering to understand customer pain points, prototype, iterate, and launch features, and own multi-quarter projects with measurable impact. Emphasis on applying and evolving AI tools and frameworks to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities, all within a collaborative, test-driven environment. Two-day onboarding travel to a Gusto office is required; roles include hybrid in-office expectations in Denver, SF, and NYC.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain; passion for creating memorable experiences for customers
- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities
- Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks, applying and sharing best practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely across teams
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale
- Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your product area
- Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact
- Experience in, or interest working in, Ruby on Rails
- Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment
- Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code
- Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders
Desired Qualifications
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Experience building scalable solutions
- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities
- Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks, applying and sharing best practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely across teams
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale
- Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your product area
- Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact
- Experience in, or interest working in, Ruby on Rails
- Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment
- Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code
- Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders
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