Staff Software Engineer, Retirement Money PlanningActive$197K–$247K

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 experience that enables savers to manage their 401(k)s, IRAs, and more

  • Contribute to the architecture of existing systems to support new capabilities

  • Apply AI tools as a regular part of your engineering workflow, and bring an: AI-native lens to product decisions: identify where AI can reduce saver effort, simplify complex retirement decisions, and surface proactive guidance before savers know they need it

  • Advocate for the needs of our savers and entrepreneurs who rely on Gusto to: help them save for retirement correctly and confidently

  • Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partners across: Engineering, Product Management, Design, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams

  • Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation

What they're looking for

  • Debug production issues and improve reliability, observability, and operational tooling
  • Identify and prioritize long-term investments to improve foundational systems and architecture
  • Write clear, reliable, well-tested code that ships quickly and scales well
  • + years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms