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GustoGustoNew York, NY

Staff Software Engineer, Benefit Renewals

Staff full-stack engineer on Gusto's Benefits Renewals team, owning the full product lifecycle for renewal workflows that help small businesses stay compliant with health benefits. Requires 8+ years experience driving complex cross-functional projects, AI fluency, and mentoring in a large Ruby/Rails + React codebase.

197k – 247k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and test products in Benefits to improve the user experience when renewing benefits for external and internal customers.
  • Automate complex manual processes in health insurance to reduce errors and save time.
  • Mentor other engineers to solve the hardest technical problems in complex domains at large scale.
  • Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React applications in the world.
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Data, Design, and Platform Engineering teams to understand customer pain points, prototype, iterate, and launch solutions.
  • Own multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and drive measurable customer impact at scale.
  • Drive large, cross-functional projects end-to-end through ambiguity, including scoping, sequencing, unblocking, and aligning stakeholders.
  • Implement A/B tests or experimentation.
  • Leverage AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities.
  • Experiment with emerging AI frameworks, apply and share best practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely.
  • Build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code in a collaborative, test-driven environment.
  • Communicate effectively across engineering teams and with business stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software development experience.
  • Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale.
  • Experience driving large, cross-functional projects end-to-end through ambiguity.
  • Experience implementing A/B tests or experimentation.
  • Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities.
  • Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks.
  • Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact.
  • Experience in, or interest in, Ruby on Rails.
  • 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.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/React.

Skills

Ruby on RailsJavaScriptReactA/B TestingAI ToolsMentorship
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