Description
At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy by handling the hard stuff , payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR , so owners can focus on their craft and customers.
We’re a small group of talented engineers, designers, data scientists, and product managers working to improve the experience of collecting, calculating, paying, and filing taxes. Our team aims to make the complexity of dealing with hundreds of tax agencies disappear and make compliance easy.
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.
Requirements
- 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 in one of these domains is preferred: Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance.
- Experience working in large, complex codebases and a demonstrated ability to improve them incrementally without breaking things.
- 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.
- A preference for working collaboratively with people, not in a silo.
- Able to communicate technical complexity clearly to product and design partners, and help the team navigate tradeoffs with full context.
- Strong systems thinking.
Compensation The cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $197,000–$247,000 for San Francisco.
Benefits All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs).
Travel Requirement A two-day travel to a Gusto office for onboarding is required for this position.