We’re hiring experienced engineers to join our teams that work on customer-facing products, developing features and iterating across our platform. As a Gusto Software Engineer, you’ll ship products and important functionality by leading initial feature specs, building backend APIs, writing frontend code, and contributing to ongoing improvements for deployed features. If you’re interested in creating elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy, join us!
Here’s what you’ll do day to day:
- Build, test, and deliver Gusto’s product suite the spans across Payroll, Benefits, HR, Time, Tax Credits, and more
- Collaborate with engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems out there in very complex domains and at a large scale
- Work and help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world
- Collaborate with our Product Management and Design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily
- Build a product that our customers genuinely love
Here’s what we’re looking for:
- Successful applicants typically have 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience in or interest working in Ruby on Rails
- Experience as an established engineer shipping products to end users and leading projects end-to-end
- Experience writing, testing and debugging code for highly reliable production systems at scale
- Demonstrated data modeling skills
- Passion for creating memorable experiences for customers
- Interest in complex product development problems
- Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment
- Able to build well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code
- Nice to haves:
Experience with React, GraphQL or Typescript
Experience in payment technologies
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $140,000/yr to $174,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $170,000/yr to $210,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Stock equity is additional. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
