Staff Software Engineer, Unified Services PlatformActive$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 maintain scalable Apex solutions on the Salesforce: platform that support our Sales and CX teams

  • Use AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code or equivalent) throughout the: development lifecycle to write, review, debug, and document code

  • Oversee ongoing improvements to deployed features and measure their impact

  • Apply Salesforce platform architecture and change/release management best: practices, using sf cli for deployments

  • Write well-structured, easily maintainable, and well-documented code

  • Build, test, and debug reliable production systems at scale, ideally: real-time, event-driven, or high-throughput

What they're looking for

  • Contribute to codebases beyond Salesforce when the work calls for it
  • + years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years: developing on the Salesforce platform in Apex
  • Salesforce Platform Developer I and/or Application Architect certification(s)
  • Strong understanding of Salesforce platform architecture, with experience: using the sf CLI and Salesforce change/release management best practices