# Staff Software Engineer- Retirement

**Company**: Gusto
**Location**: United States
**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/8121732?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_b1fab88b-046

## Description

At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy.

You'll be a key engineer focused on building and owning the systems that allow tens of thousands of businesses to offer and manage 401(k)s.

**About the Team:** The Core 401(k) team makes offering a 401(k) to employees a no-brainer for every company.

**Day-to-Day:**

- Design, build, maintain, and ship services and features that allow companies to offer and manage 401(k)s to their employees.

- Identify opportunities to extend and modify the architecture of existing systems to support new capabilities.

- Partner with product, design, and operations to scope work and deliver production-ready solutions.

- Debug production issues and improve reliability, observability, and operational tooling.

- Collaborate with other engineering teams to integrate with shared systems and platforms.

- Write clear, reliable, well-tested code that ships quickly and scales well.

**Requirements:**

- 8+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms.

- Comfortable working across teams and gaining influence to drive projects forward.

- Strong experience with services and APIs.

- Strong experience with message-based systems (Sidekiq, SQS, NServiceBus, etc.).

- Experience with GraphQL.

- Good experience with large modern frontend applications (like React).

- Comfortable owning systems end-to-end, including production support and operational work.

- Experience working closely with PMs and cross-functional partners to deliver scoped work.

- Pragmatic, execution-focused approach to engineering.

- Clear communicator and collaborative teammate.

- Experience with Ruby on Rails (or a comparable backend framework).

**Compensation:** Our 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.

**Benefits:** All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs).

## Skills

### Required
- Ruby on Rails
- GraphQL
- React
- message-based systems
- services and APIs

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