About the company
At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and test Gusto core products.
- Mentor other engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems out there in very complex domains and at a large scale.
- Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world.
- Collaborate with our Product Management, Data, Design, and Platform Engineering teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily.
- Build products that our customers genuinely love.
Requirements
- Successful applicants typically have 8+ years of software development experience.
- Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain; passion for creating memorable experiences for customers.
- 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.
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale.
- Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your product area.
- Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact.
- 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.
Conditions
- 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.
- Please note that a two day travel to a Gusto office for onboarding is required for this position.