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Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineer

197k – 247kNew York, NYFullstack EngineeringHybrid8+ YOE
Summary

Seasoned full-stack engineer building and scaling Gusto's customer-facing products (Payroll, Benefits, HR). Owns multi-quarter projects, mentors engineers, and leverages AI tools. Requires 8+ years experience.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and test Gusto core products such as Payroll, Benefits, HR, Retirement, Gusto Money, Gusto Solo, and Gusto Pro
  • Mentor other engineers to help solve complex technical problems 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 features
  • Own multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and deliver measurable customer impact at scale
  • Perform large-scale refactors, address performance and reliability issues
  • Take ownership over all aspects of your product area

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software development experience
  • Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain
  • Experience owning multi-quarter projects with measurable customer impact at scale
  • Experience with large-scale refactors, performance and reliability issues
  • Strong sense of ownership over product areas
  • Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact
  • Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities
  • Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks; applying and sharing best practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely across teams

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience in, or interest working 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
Skills
Ruby on RailsJavaScriptReactFrontend DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentAPI DesignPerformance OptimizationCode RefactoringMentorshipAI Tools
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