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Staff Software Engineer, Product

Gusto, Inc.San Francisco, California, United States | Denver, Colorado, United States | New York, New York, United States | Ontario, Canada | WorldwideRemote, Onsite
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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 300,000 businesses nationwide.Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually.

Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy. We’re hiring seasoned engineers to join our teams that work on customer-facing products, developing features and iterating across our platform to help define the customer financial journey at Gusto. Our goal at Gusto is to strengthen our customers' financial wellness and to deliver a consistently great experience across all of our products.We’re looking for talented and motivated engineers to lead and grow 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
  • Work and 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:


  • 8+ years of professional software development experience
  • Experience as a technical lead, overseeing the work of multiple teams on projects
  • Experience architecting, building and testing large-scale production level code
  • Demonstrated data modeling skills
  • Passion for creating memorable experiences for customers
  • Interest in complex product development problems -- we use Rails & React
  • Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment
  • Able to build well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code 
  • Preferred background in one of the following areas:
  • AI/Machine Learning 
  • Experience building for fintech, payroll, payments or tax products

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $144,000/yr to $231,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $174,000/yr to $272,000/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.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).

The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas. When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.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. Gusto 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.

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 assistance in filling out a Gusto job application, please reach out to candidate-accommodations@gusto.com.

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Life at Gusto, Inc.

Gusto's mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life. By making complicated, impersonal business tasks simple and personal, Gusto is reimagining HR, payroll, and benefits for over 60,000 companies nationwide. Gusto has offices in San Francisco and Denver and the company's investors include Google Capital, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, as well as the founders of Instagram, Stripe, Nest, PayPal, Yelp, Dropbox, and Eventbrite, among others. Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire 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.
Thrive Here & What We Value* Collaborative and Inclusive Workplace (physical and virtual)* Total Rewards Philosophy* Commitment to Diversity and Equal Opportunity Employment* Flexible Work Arrangements (23 days per week in office, remote work options)* Providing Reasonable Accommodations for Qualified Individuals with Disabilities* Emphasis on Learning and First Principles Thinking* Commitment to Building a Diverse and Passionate Product Team* Cross-Organizational Leadership Role* Equal Opportunity Employer* Support for Small Businesses
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