Gusto

Senior Staff Engineer, Tax Platform

Atlanta, GA - Hybrid; Austin, TX - Remote; Chicago, IL - Remote; Denver, CO - Hybrid; Los Angeles, CA - Remote; Miami, FL - Remote; New York, NY - Hybrid; San Francisco, CA - Hybrid; Seattle, WA - Remote. Posted 4 months ago

The role

You will design, build, and test a platform that supports tax compliance for millions of people. You will work on scaling large Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications and drive technical strategy for the Tax platform domain.

What you will do

  • 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 cross-functional teams
  • Improve team productivity with services, tools, and APIs
  • Build guardrails into the Tax platform to enable safe use of agentic AI
  • Own and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for the team's domain area
  • Identify and prioritize long-term investments to improve foundational systems and architecture
  • Lead improvements to incident response processes, tooling, and culture
  • Mentor and develop engineers on the team

Required qualifications

  • At least 10+ 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
  • Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
  • Ability to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code
  • Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software
  • Experience building products in highly regulated and high risk domains
  • Familiar with current AI tools (LLMs, Agents) and their shortcomings / benefits
  • Embeds AI in daily development workflow to measurably reduce cycle time
  • Mentors engineers on effective AI usage and helps develop an AI strategy for other engineers

Nice to have

  • Experience in Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and React

Benefits

  • Competitive base pay
  • Benefits
  • Equity (RSUs)

Before you apply

  • AI experience will be assessed during the interview process

About the company

Gusto handles payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR for more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide. They have teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York.

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