Sr Staff Software Engineer, Tax Experiences

Gusto • San Francisco, CA, Seattle WA, Denver CO, New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Toronto CAN • 13h ago

About the Role:

We’re hiring engineers to join our teams that work on core platform capabilities, improving our existing systems for extensibility and scalability, and building the future of Gusto's Tax system. As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level, you’ll be advocating for the roadmap, communicating with stakeholders across multiple organizations, influencing initial feature specs, understanding how to take existing systems closer to desired end states, executing on projects, maintaining code that powers our experiences, and mentoring other engineers at scale. If you’re interested in building elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy, join us!

About the Team:

We’re a small group of talented engineers, designers, and product managers working to improve the experience of collecting, calculating, paying, and filing taxes. Our team aims to make the complexity of dealing with hundreds of tax agencies disappear and to make compliance easy. We’re responsible for the Employer and Employee experiences for tax data collection, calculation, payment, and filing. We ensure that communication about those experiences is clear and actionable, and that the systems we use to communicate those experiences are reasonable and sustainable. This team is responsible for the full stack of work, not just the frontend. We implement work up and down the stack to build these delightful experiences, and we partner regularly with all of the teams in the Tax Organization and many teams outside of it as well.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

Design, build, and test the experience that enables people to add and update their tax information at Gusto.
Advocate for the needs of our customers, employers and employees who rely on Gusto to ensure that their taxes are collected, calculated, and filed correctly.
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.
Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation
Own and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for your domain in alignment with team and group-level OKRs
Identify and prioritize long-term investments to improve foundational systems and architecture
Lead improvements to incident response processes, tooling, and culture to enhance system reliability and team effectiveness

Here’s what we're looking for:

Successful applicants have at least 12+ years of experience
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
An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
Enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment
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
Experience in one of these domains is preferred: Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance
Bonus: Experience with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and React

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $200,000-$230,000 /yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $230,000-$270,000 /yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

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