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About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer for the Time / Scheduling product team, you'll operate across the full product lifecycle: shaping features from early spec and design through to launch and long-term iteration. This involves writing clean frontend code, designing and building reliable backend APIs, influencing product direction, and taking ownership of post-launch activities. This role combines technical craft with real-world impact, helping power the livelihoods of millions using Gusto products.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and test Gusto core products across the Time domain
Mentor other engineers to help solve complex technical problems at scale
Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world
Collaborate with Product Management, Data, Design, and Platform Engineering teams to understand customer pain points, develop solutions, and prototype, iterate, and launch daily
Build products that customers genuinely love

Requirements

8+ years of software development experience
Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain
Passion for creating memorable customer experiences
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
Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues
Strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your product area
Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact
Experience in, or interest working in, Ruby on Rails
Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment
Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code
Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders
Travel to Gusto's office for onboarding is required

Skills

Ruby on Rails
Javascript
React
AI tools
AI frameworks

Location

Denver
San Francisco
New York City
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 is on a mission to grow the small business economy by handling payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR, so owners can focus on their craft and customers.
Gusto has teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, supporting over 500,000 small businesses nationwide.
AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto.
Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City.
Gusto's subsidiary, Symmetry, has a physical office in Scottsdale.
A secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required when approved to work remotely.
Gusto takes security and protection of personal information seriously.

Equal Opportunity

Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision 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 also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.