Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy by handling payroll, health insurance, and HR. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to improve tax experiences, ensuring compliance through the development of user-friendly systems and collaboration across teams.
Responsibilities
- Execute on the technical strategy for your team's domain in alignment with team and group-level OKRs, and contribute to the broader Tax Engineering roadmap through collaboration
- Design, build, and test the experience that enables people to add and update their tax information at Gusto
- Advocate for the needs of our customers, employers and employees who rely on Gusto to ensure that their taxes are collected, calculated, and filed correctly
- Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships across Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams
- Support the software platform that powers multiple 1st and 3rd party products and serves millions of businesses
- Mentor and grow fellow engineers working to create holistic and scalable solutions
- Drive the product development process from concept to launch, delivering delightful products that make payroll, taxes, and compliance simple and easy
- Improve the productivity and happiness of our teams with the design systems, components, and interfaces you build
- Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation
- Identify and prioritize long-term investments to improve foundational systems and architecture
- Apply AI tools as a regular part of your engineering workflow, and bring an AI-native lens to product decisions: identify where AI can reduce customer effort, simplify complex tax workflows, and surface proactive guidance before customers know they need it
Skills
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with expertise in React, TypeScript, as well as experience with Ruby on Rails, SQL, or other backend languages
- Experience working in large, complex codebases and a demonstrated ability to improve them incrementally without breaking things. Designing, building, and testing production level code that functions at scale
- An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
- Experience applying AI tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and build testing. Familiar with AI-assisted development workflows
- A preference for working collaboratively with people, not in a silo. Pairing, thought partnership, and shared investigation feel natural, not like overhead
- Able to communicate technical complexity clearly to product and design partners, and help the team navigate tradeoffs with full context
- Strong systems thinking: the ability to build mental models of unfamiliar systems, ask the right questions, and produce clear analysis that others can act on
- Experience in one of these domains is preferred: Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance
Benefits
- All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) - because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success.
- Stock equity is additional.
- Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City.
- Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role).
- When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.
- Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
- Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
- If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.
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