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Sr Staff Software Engineer, Tax Experiences

Gusto

$200,000 - $270,000
Nov 4, 2025
San Francisco, CA, US • Seattle, WA, US • New York, NY, US • Los Angeles, CA, US
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Gusto is looking to solve the problem of making payroll, taxes, and compliance simple and easy for small businesses, by improving their existing systems for extensibility and scalability, and building the future of Gusto's Tax system.

Requirements

  • Experience in designing and developing robust, distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages
  • Experience influencing and guiding the work of multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products
  • Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production level code
  • Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code
  • Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software
  • Experience building products in highly regulated domains is desired, but not required
  • Bonus: Experience with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and React

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and test the experience that enables people to add and update their tax information at Gusto.
  • Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world
  • Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams
  • Build the software platform that powers multiple 1st and 3rd party products and serves millions of businesses.
  • Mentor and grow fellow engineers working to create holistic and scalable solutions
  • Drive the product development process from concept to launch, delivering delightful products that make payroll, taxes, and compliance simple and easy
  • Improve the productivity and happiness of our teams with the services, tools, and APIs you build.

Other

  • Successful applicants have at least 12+ years of experience
  • Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
  • Enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment
  • Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role).
  • When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.