Principal Software Engineer, State Tax Registration & ClosureActive$280K–$309K

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • Function as the founding Technical Lead for State Tax Registration & Closure,: standing up the team's technical foundation and setting technical direction from day one.

  • Design, build, and test the systems that register and close out Gusto: customers' state tax accounts as they start and stop operating across all 50 states.

  • Grow your remit over your first year: from building and scaling State Tax Registration & Closure to taking on broader technical influence across Company Group.

  • Help scale one of the largest Ruby on Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world.

  • Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems in partnership with: Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams.

  • Mentor and support fellow engineers in creating holistic, scalable solutions.

What they're looking for

  • Drive the product development process from concept to launch, delivering: products that make company compliance simple and easy.
  • Build services, tools, and APIs that make Gusto's engineering, compliance,: and operations teams more effective.
  • Work in a highly supportive environment that fosters collaboration, productivity, and innovation.
  • Stay current with advancements in AI and Machine Learning, applying this knowledge to our projects.