[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Core Platforms

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy by providing essential services like payroll and HR. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and build core platform services that support their product teams and enhance user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test Gusto core platform services – communications, reporting, dashboards, access, workflows, risk, payments, and compliance capabilities, among others
• 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 Engineering, Product Management, Data, and Design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily
• Build platforms that engineering teams rely on, and trust to deliver products that our customers genuinely love

Skills

• Successful applicants typically have 8+ years of software development experience
• Passion for creating scalable, efficient platforms for users
• Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new platform 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 user impact at scale
• Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your platform 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

Benefits

• All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success.
• Stock equity is additional.
• Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City.
• Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role).
• When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.

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