# Staff Software Engineer, Core Products

**Company**: Gusto
**Location**: New York, NY
**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

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## Description

About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff , payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR , so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.

About the Role: We're looking for seasoned full-stack software engineers to join the teams behind Gusto's customer-facing products , the features and experiences that small business owners and their employees rely on every day. As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll operate across the full product lifecycle: shaping features from early spec and design through to launch and long-term iteration.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and test Gusto core products such as Payroll, Benefits, HR, Retirement, Gusto Money, Gusto Solo, and Gusto Pro, among others

- Mentor other engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems out there in very complex domains and at a large scale

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

- Collaborate with our Product Management, Data, Design, and Platform Engineering teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily

- Build products that our customers genuinely love

Requirements:

- Successful applicants typically have 8+ years of software development experience

- Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain; passion for creating memorable experiences for customers

- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities

- Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks, applying and sharing best practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely across teams

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

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

- Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact

Benefits:

- Competitive base pay

- Benefits

- Equity (RSUs)

- Two day travel to a Gusto office for onboarding is required for this position

Salary Information:

- The cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $163,000–$204,000 in Denver & most remote locations, and $197,000–$247,000 for San Francisco & New York.

## Skills

### Required
- Ruby
- Rails
- Javascript
- React
- AI tools

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