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 across the Time domain
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 8+ 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
