# Senior Staff Engineer - Tax Platform Engineering

**Company**: Gusto
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $223,000/yr to $278,000/yr
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

We're hiring seasoned engineers to join our teams that work on core platform capabilities, improving our existing systems for extensibility and scalability, and building the future of Gusto's Tax platform.

As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level, you'll be guiding projects end-to-end by influencing initial feature specs, understanding how to take existing systems closer to desired end states, executing on projects, and maintaining code that powers core experiences.

The Tax team ensures Gusto customers remain compliant and confident by managing every aspect of payroll taxes,including setup, calculation, payments, filings, and year-end communications.

Here's what you'll do day-to-day:

- Design, build, and test the platform that supports tax compliance for millions of people

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

- Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams

- Improve the productivity and happiness of our teams with the services, tools, and APIs you build

- Build guardrails into the Tax platform that enable Gusto to safely leverage agentic AI to interact with tax concepts in a way that ensures compliance, accuracy, stability, and reliability

- Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation

- Own and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for your team's domain area in alignment with team and group-level OKRs

- Identify and prioritize long-term investments to improve foundational systems and architecture

- Lead improvements to incident response processes, tooling, and culture to enhance system reliability and team effectiveness

- Mentor and develop engineers on your team working to create holistic and scalable solutions

Here's what we're looking for:

- Successful applicants have at least 10+ years of experience

- Experience in designing and developing robust, distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages

- Experience influencing and guiding the work of multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products

- Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production level code

- An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems

- Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs

- Enthusiasm for a highly collaborative, test-driven environment

- Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code

- Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software

- Experience building products in highly regulated and high-risk domains

- Experience in one of these domains is preferred: Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance

- Familiar with current AI tools (LLMs, Agents) and their shortcomings / benefits

- Embeds AI in daily development workflow (scaffolding tests, summarizing docs) to measurably reduce cycle time

- Mentors engineers on effective AI usage and helps develop an AI strategy for other engineers

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $223,000/yr to $278,000/yr for San Francisco. Stock equity is additional.

## Skills

### Required
- Ruby
- Rails
- TypeScript
- React
- distributed systems
- legacy product optimization
- large-scale production code
- AI tools

### Nice to have
- Payroll
- Taxes
- Compliance

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