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Staff Software Engineer, Product at Gusto

Ruby on Rails
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/13/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/1/2025

About Gusto

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.

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Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.

We’re hiring seasoned engineers to join our teams that work on customer-facing products, developing features and iterating across our platform. As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level, you’ll oversee projects end-to-end by influencing initial feature specs, building backend APIs, writing frontend code, and overseeing ongoing improvements for deployed features. If you’re interested in building elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy, join us!

Here’s what you’ll do day to day :

  • Architect, build, and test Gusto’s product suite that spans across Payroll, Benefits, HR, Time, Tax Credits, and more.
  • Mentor other engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems 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 and Design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily.
  • Build a product that our customers genuinely love.

Here’s what we’re looking for :

  • 8 years of software development experience.
  • Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale.
  • Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain.
  • Experience in, or interest in working with, Ruby on Rails.
  • Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your product area.
  • Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment.
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