Senior Staff Engineer - Tax Platform Engineering

At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy.

We're hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to join our Tax Platform Engineering team, focusing on core platform capabilities, extensibility, and scalability.

As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level, you'll guide projects end-to-end, influence feature specs, execute on projects, and maintain code that powers core experiences.

The Tax team ensures Gusto customers remain compliant and confident by managing every aspect of payroll taxes.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and test the platform that supports tax compliance for millions of people
• Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world
• Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams
• Improve the productivity and happiness of our teams with the services, tools, and APIs you build
• Build guardrails into the Tax platform that enable Gusto to safely leverage agentic AI to interact with tax concepts
• Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation
• Own and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for your team's domain area
• Identify and prioritize long-term investments to improve foundational systems and architecture
• Lead improvements to incident response processes, tooling, and culture to enhance system reliability and team effectiveness
• Mentor and develop engineers on your team working to create holistic and scalable solutions

Requirements:

• At least 10+ years of experience
• Experience in designing and developing robust, distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages
• Experience influencing and guiding the work of multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products
• Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production level code
• An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
• Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
• Enthusiasm for a highly collaborative, test-driven environment
• Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code
• Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software
• Experience building products in highly regulated and high-risk domains
• Familiar with current AI tools (LLMs, Agents) and their shortcomings/benefits

Nice to have:

• Experience with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and React

We offer a competitive base salary ($223,000/yr to $278,000/yr for San Francisco), benefits, and equity (RSUs).

Gusto is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds.