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Salary: USD 197,000 - 247,000 / annual
Gusto is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own full-stack features independently across the HR Experience (HRX) product surface. You will design, build, and maintain features from technical design through implementation, testing, and production monitoring with minimal oversight.
Key responsibilities include:
• Design, build, and maintain features for the HRX Engineering product surface
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code across the full stack
• Participate in code review, sprint planning, and retrospectives
• Partner with product and design teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Monitor and improve reliability, performance, and quality of shipped features
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response for owned systems
• Provide technical guidance and code-review mentorship to less-tenured engineers
Gusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy by handling payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR services. The company supports over 500,000 small businesses and maintains offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York. All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs). AI fluency is expected as a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto.
The role is hybrid in New York, with expectations to work from the office approximately 2-3 days per week.
Requirements:
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack work
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and ship features spanning frontend, backend, and data layer with minimal oversight
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language/framework (e.g., Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python/Django) and one modern frontend framework (e.g., React, TypeScript)
• Solid understanding of relational databases — schema design, migrations, and query performance
• Comfortable owning a project end-to-end: scoping, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
• Strong grounding in software engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, automated testing, CI/CD
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers
• Clear written and verbal communication, including technical design docs
Nice to have:
• Experience in HR tech, payroll, or fintech domains
• Experience designing REST or GraphQL APIs
• Exposure to accessibility (a11y) best practices
