# Staff Software Engineer, Core Platforms

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

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/7760341?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We are seeking a seasoned full-stack software engineer to join the teams behind Gusto's product platforms. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will operate across the full lifecycle of foundational systems, shaping architecture, building self-service internal features and APIs, and owning their performance.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and test Gusto core platform services – communications, reporting, dashboards, access, workflows, risk, payments, and compliance capabilities, among others

- Mentor other engineers to help solve complex technical problems

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

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

- Build platforms that engineering teams rely on and trust to deliver products that customers love

Requirements:

- 8+ years of software development experience

- Passion for creating scalable, efficient platforms

- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems

- Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks

- Experience owning multi-quarter projects with measurable user impact

- Experience with large-scale refactors, performance, and reliability issues

- Ability to mentor engineers

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience 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

We offer competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs). The cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $163,000–$204,000 in Denver and $197,000–$247,000 in San Francisco and New York.

## Skills

### Required
- Ruby on Rails
- Javascript/React
- AI tools
- scalable platforms

### Nice to have
- large-scale refactors
- performance and reliability issues
- mentoring engineers

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