Gusto Senior Staff Engineer at Gusto working on core platform capabilities for the Tax platform. Design, build, and test scalable systems supporting tax compliance for millions of users.
Responsibilities
We’re hiring seasoned 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 platform. As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level, you’ll be guiding projects end-to-end by influencing initial feature specs, understanding how to take existing systems closer to desired end states, executing on projects, and maintaining code that powers core experiences. If you’re interested in building elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy, join us!
Payroll is the beating heart of Gusto’s business. The Tax team ensures Gusto customers remain compliant and confident by managing every aspect of payroll taxes—including setup, calculation, payments, filings, and year-end communications. We design seamless, end-to-end experiences that simplify complex processes and build the infrastructure that keeps taxes accurate and on time. By combining reliable systems with thoughtful design, our team makes one of the most complicated parts of running a business simple for employers. Tax is a stabilizing pace layer at Gusto: continuity and trust are paramount, change is deliberate, and impact is wide. The domain is highly complex and offers the opportunity to engage in system design that simplifies this for customers.
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:
Design, build, and test the platform that supports tax compliance for millions of people
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
Improve the productivity and happiness of our teams with the services, tools, and APIs you build.
Build guardrails into the Tax platform that enable Gusto to safely leverage agentic AI to interact with tax concepts in a way that ensures compliance, accuracy, stability, and reliability.
Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation
Own and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for your team’s domain area 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
