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 Gusto's Expansion Experiences team, which helps small business owners discover and adopt more of what Gusto offers.
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 design reliable backend APIs and data models.
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 with 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
We offer competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs). The cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at 199,000–247,000 for San Francisco.