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 Gusto core products such as Payroll, Benefits, HR,: Retirement, Gusto Money, Gusto Solo, and Gusto Pro , 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 Management, Data, Design, and Platform: Engineering teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily
Build products that our customers genuinely love
Successful applicants typically have 10+ years of software development experience
What they're looking for
- Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain;: passion for creating memorable experiences for customers
- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve: testing, and deliver new product 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 customer impact at scale
