Staff Software Engineer- Tax Credits

Quick Facts

• Role focus: Staff Engineer, Tax Credits (Gusto platform)
• Team mission: create a scalable, approachable, opinionated experience that helps customers discover and use available tax credits and grants
• Onboarding: two-day travel to a Gusto office required
• Compensation: cash targeted at $163,000–$204,000 (Denver & most remote) and $197,000–$247,000 (San Francisco & New York); stock equity additional

Description

You will take complex, ambiguous problems and distill them into actionable solutions, building “magical just-in-time moments” and a self-serve journey that helps customers explore tax credits potential and complete the complex process of gathering data and delivering the right studies.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test Gusto core products
• Mentor other engineers to solve hard technical problems in complex, large-scale domains
• Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React applications
• Collaborate with Product Management, Data, Design, and Platform Engineering to understand customer pain points and prototype, iterate, and launch

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; ability to evaluate and scale AI use safely
• Experience owning multi-quarter projects with measurable customer impact at scale
• Experience with large-scale refactors, performance, and reliability issues; strong ownership of product area
• Ability to mentor engineers
• 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
• Two-day travel to a Gusto office for onboarding required
• Approved non-office work requires a secure, reliable, consistent internet connection

Benefits

• Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) for full-time employees
• Offer amounts determined by role, level, and location; stock equity additional to cash compensation targets