Software Engineer

Gusto is hiring experienced engineers to join their teams that work on customer-facing products, developing features and iterating across their 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.

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.

Day-to-day responsibilities:

• Build, test, and deliver Gusto's product suite that 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 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 customers genuinely love

Requirements:

• Typically 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

Gusto offers a competitive compensation package, with cash compensation 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 & New York. Stock equity is additional.

Gusto is committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. They offer a hybrid work model with 2-3 days per week in the office for employees based in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City.