Staff Software Engineer (Tax Experiences)

• 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
• You’ll execute on the technical strategy for your team’s domain in alignment with team and group-level OKRs, and contribute to the broader Tax Engineering roadmap through collaboration
• 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
• Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships across Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams
• Support 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 design systems, components, and interfaces you build
• Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation
• Identify and prioritize long-term investments to improve foundational systems and architecture
• Apply AI tools as a regular part of your engineering workflow, and bring an AI-native lens to product decisions: identify where AI can reduce customer effort, simplify complex tax workflows, and surface proactive guidance before customers know they need it

Benefits

• Gender-affirming care and support
• Family care and support, including family planning and fertility benefits
• A variety of mental health resources
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
• Free meals and refreshments at the office (conversation and community is an added bonus!)
• Paid vacation, sick time, bereavement, and holidays, paid leaves, sabbatical, and more

• Able to communicate technical complexity clearly to product and design partners, and help the team navigate tradeoffs with full context
• Experience working in large, complex codebases and a demonstrated ability to improve them incrementally without breaking things. Designing, building, and testing production level code that functions at scale
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with expertise in React, TypeScript, as well as experience with Ruby on Rails, SQL, or other backend languages
• Experience applying AI tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and build testing. Familiar with AI-assisted development workflows
• Strong systems thinking: the ability to build mental models of unfamiliar systems, ask the right questions, and produce clear analysis that others can act on
• Experience in one of these domains is preferred: Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance
• A preference for working collaboratively with people, not in a silo. Pairing, thought partnership, and shared investigation feel natural, not like overhead
• An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems