# Staff Software Engineer, Tax Experiences

**Company:** [Gusto](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gusto)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $197k – $247k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, SQL, AI Tools
**Posted:** 2026-07-06

> Staff Software Engineer building full-stack tax experiences at Gusto. Design, implement, and scale delightful onboarding, payments, and filing flows for payroll/tax compliance using React, TypeScript, and Ruby on Rails. Mentor engineers, drive roadmap, and apply AI to simplify complex tax workflows.

## Job Description

## 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.

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