Description
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.
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Tax Experiences team. As a small group of talented engineers, designers, data scientists, and product managers, we aim to make the complexity of dealing with hundreds of tax agencies disappear and make compliance easy.
Responsibilities:
- Execute on the technical strategy for your team's domain in alignment with team and group-level OKRs, and contribute to the broader Tax Engineering roadmap through collaboration.
- Design, build, and test the experience that enables people to add and update their tax information at Gusto.
- Advocate for the needs of our customers, employers, and employees who rely on Gusto to ensure that their taxes are collected, calculated, and filed correctly.
- Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships across Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams.
- Support the software platform that powers multiple 1st and 3rd party products and serves millions of businesses.
- Mentor and grow fellow engineers working to create holistic and scalable solutions.
- Drive the product development process from concept to launch, delivering delightful products that make payroll, taxes, and compliance simple and easy.
- Improve the productivity and happiness of our teams with the design systems, components, and interfaces you build.
- Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation.
- Identify and prioritize long-term investments to improve foundational systems and architecture.
- Apply AI tools as a regular part of your engineering workflow, and bring an AI-native lens to product decisions.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with expertise in React, TypeScript, as well as experience with Ruby on Rails, SQL, or other backend languages.
- Experience in one of these domains is preferred: Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance.
- Experience working in large, complex codebases and a demonstrated ability to improve them incrementally without breaking things.
- An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems.
- Experience applying AI tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and build testing.
- A preference for working collaboratively with people, not in a silo.
- Able to communicate technical complexity clearly to product and design partners, and help the team navigate tradeoffs with full context.
- Strong systems thinking: the ability to build mental models of unfamiliar systems, ask the right questions, and produce clear analysis that others can act on.
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. Stock equity is additional.
Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role).
Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.