Staff Software Engineer, Tax Experiences

What you'll do

• 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.
• 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.
• 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: identify where AI can reduce customer effort, simplify complex tax workflows, and surface proactive guidance.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Expertise in React and TypeScript.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, SQL, or other backend languages.
• Experience working in large, complex codebases and a demonstrated ability to improve them incrementally without breaking things.
• Designing, building, and testing production level code that functions at scale.
• 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. Familiar with AI-assisted development workflows.
• Preference for working collaboratively with people, not in a silo. Pairing, thought partnership, and shared investigation feel natural.
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance domains.
• A two day travel to a Gusto office for onboarding is required.