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
Design, build, and test the platform that supports tax compliance for millions of people
Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world
Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from: Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams
Improve the productivity and happiness of our teams with the services, tools, and APIs you build.
Build guardrails into the Tax platform that enable Gusto to safely leverage: agentic AI to interact with tax concepts in a way that ensures compliance, accuracy, stability, and reliability.
Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation
What they're looking for
- Own and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for your team’s domain area: in alignment with team and group-level OKRs
- Identify and prioritize long-term investments to improve foundational systems and architecture
- Lead improvements to incident response processes, tooling, and culture to: enhance system reliability and team effectiveness
- Mentor and develop engineers on your team working to create holistic and: scalable solutions. Track record of elevating team capabilities through pairing, code review, and knowledge sharing.
