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About the Role

We are seeking a seasoned full-stack software engineer to join the Tax Accounts team. This team simplifies the complexity of dealing with hundreds of tax agencies, managing every customer's tax account data, including registrations, authorizations, and rates, to ensure accurate withholding, payment, and filing. The role involves operating across the full product lifecycle, focusing on clean frontend code, reliable backend APIs, and data models within a complex compliance domain, as well as automation to keep accounts synchronized with agencies.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and test systems for employer and employee tax accounts, including agency registrations, power-of-attorney authorizations, tax notices, agency filings, and tax setup across jurisdictions.
Build automation to request and maintain access with tax agencies on behalf of customers, utilizing bots, data exchanges, and agency-event pipelines to ensure accuracy and prevent filing failures.
Model complex, jurisdiction-specific compliance rules into maintainable systems, owning reliability, performance, and correctness in a domain where accuracy is critical.
Collaborate with Product, Design, Tax Operations, and PEO teams to translate customer and compliance challenges into solutions, then prototype, iterate, and launch.
Mentor other engineers and contribute to solving complex problems at scale within a highly intricate domain.
Build products that customers value.

Requirements

8+ years of software development experience.
Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and deliver measurable customer impact at scale.
Experience building scalable solutions that reduce customer pain, with a strong sense of ownership for reliability, performance, and correctness.
Comfort designing data models and APIs for complex, rules-heavy domains like compliance, tax, or payments, where edge cases and accuracy are paramount.
Ability to mentor engineers to enhance their performance and impact.
Ability to communicate effectively with engineering teams and business stakeholders.
Experience in, or interest in working with, Ruby on Rails.
Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment.
Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, and well-documented code.
Onboarding requires travel to Gusto's office.

Skills

Full-stack development
Frontend code
Backend APIs
Data models
Automation
AI tools
AI frameworks
Scalable solutions
Data modeling
API design
Ruby on Rails
Test-driven development
Communication

Location

Denver
San Francisco
New York
Remote

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

Staff
8+ years

Salary/Compensations

$163,000–$204,000 in Denver & most remote locations
$197,000–$247,000 for San Francisco & New York

Benefits

Competitive base pay
Benefits
Equity (RSUs)

About the Company

Gusto's mission is to grow the small business economy by handling payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR, allowing owners to focus on their business.
Gusto has teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, supporting over 500,000 small businesses.
Gusto is building a diverse workplace.
AI is fundamental to how work is done at Gusto, with expectations for team members to engage with AI tools and evolve their fluency.
Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City.
Symmetry, a Gusto subsidiary, has a physical office in Scottsdale.

Equal Opportunity

Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Gusto does not discriminate in hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
Gusto is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures.
Requests for medical or religious accommodations during the candidate journey should be submitted via a specific form.