# Staff Software Engineer, Expansion Experiences

**Company**: Gusto
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $199,000–$247,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/8244957?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

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 seasoned full-stack software engineer to join our Expansion Experiences team.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll operate across the full product lifecycle, shaping experiments and features from early concept through launch and long-term iteration. You'll design, build, and test customer-facing experiences, run structured experiments, and mentor other engineers.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and test customer-facing experiences across recommendations, nurture campaigns, booking flows, and the plan upgrade/retention experience

- Run structured experiments to validate changes and iterate quickly based on results

- Design and build reliable backend APIs and data models that support personalization and customer journeys

- Mentor other engineers and raise the bar on technical execution and product quality

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

Requirements:

- 8+ years of software development experience

- Product-minded engineer with experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain

- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale

- Comfort designing and interpreting experiments, and working with ambiguous or evolving requirements

- Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact

- Experience with large-scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your product area

Nice to Have:

- Experience in Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, and TypeScript

- Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment

- Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code

- Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders

Benefits:

- Competitive base pay

- Benefits and equity (RSUs)

- Opportunity to work on projects that make a real impact

- Collaborative and test-driven environment

We offer a salary range of $199,000–$247,000 for San Francisco & New York, and $164,000–$204,000 for Denver & most remote locations.

## Skills

### Required
- Ruby on Rails
- React
- GraphQL
- TypeScript
- full-stack software engineering
- backend APIs
- data models
- personalization
- customer journeys
- experimentation
- mentoring

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