# Staff Software Engineer, HR Experience

**Company**: Gusto
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $197,000–$247,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/8168028?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

### Job Overview

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.

### Responsibilities

- Owns full-stack features independently, from technical design through implementation, testing, and production monitoring, with light oversight.

- Design, build, and maintain features for the HRX Engineering (HR Experience) product surface.

- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code across the stack.

- Participate in code review, sprint planning, and retros.

- Partner with product and design to translate requirements into technical solutions.

- Help monitor and improve the reliability, performance, and quality of shipped features.

- Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response for owned systems.

- Provide technical guidance and code-review mentorship to less-tenured engineers.

### Requirements

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack work.

- Demonstrated ability to design, build, and ship features spanning frontend, backend, and data layer with minimal oversight.

- Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language/framework (e.g., Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python/Django) and one modern frontend framework (e.g., React, TypeScript).

- Solid understanding of relational databases , schema design, migrations, and query performance.

- Comfortable owning a project end-to-end: scoping, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

- Strong grounding in software engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, automated testing, CI/CD.

- Experience partnering cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers.

- Clear written and verbal communication, including technical design docs.

### Nice to Have

- Experience in HR tech, payroll, or fintech domains.

- Experience designing REST or GraphQL APIs.

- Exposure to accessibility (a11y) best practices.

### Compensation and Benefits

- Cash compensation targeted at $197,000–$247,000 for New York.

- Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) for full-time employees.

- Physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City with hybrid work arrangements.

## Skills

### Required
- Ruby on Rails
- Node.js
- Python/Django
- React
- TypeScript
- relational databases
- data structures
- algorithms
- automated testing
- CI/CD

### Nice to have
- HR tech
- payroll
- fintech
- REST APIs
- GraphQL APIs
- accessibility (a11y)

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