# Staff Software Engineer, PEO Benefits

**Company**: Gusto
**Location**: Denver, CO
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $163,000–$204,000 in Denver & most remote locations, and $197,000–$247,000 for San Francisco & New York
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/7982781?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_2a60871d-0fd

## 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 looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our PEO Benefits team. As a key player in our engineering team, you'll help build systems for our Professional Employer Organization (PEO) and Benefits offering, which includes a national Master Health Plan that can reduce healthcare costs for small businesses by 20-25% through pooled purchasing power.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and test the Gusto PEO Benefits experience, including benefits shopping and plan-recommendation flows, carrier integrations, and automation tools.

- Mentor other engineers to solve complex technical problems.

- Scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world.

- Collaborate with Product Management, Data, Design, and Platform Engineering teams to understand customer pain points and develop solutions.

- Build products that customers genuinely love.

Requirements:

- 8+ years of software development experience.

- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems.

- Experience driving large, cross-functional projects end-to-end.

- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development.

- Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks.

- Ability to mentor engineers.

- Experience in or interest working in Ruby on Rails.

- Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment.

- Ability to build well-structured, maintainable code.

- Effective communication across engineering teams and with business stakeholders.

Benefits:

- Competitive base pay.

- Benefits.

- Equity (RSUs).

- Opportunity to work on impactful projects.

Salary: $163,000–$204,000 in Denver & most remote locations, and $197,000–$247,000 for San Francisco & New York.

Locations: Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; New York, NY.

## Skills

### Required
- Ruby on Rails
- Javascript/React
- AI tools
- Software Development

### Nice to have
- PEO Expertise

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