Staff Software Engineer (Time and Scheduling)

• We’re looking for seasoned full-stack software engineers to join the teams behind Gusto’s customer-facing products — the features and experiences that small business owners and their employees rely on every day
• As a Staff Software Engineer for the Time / Scheduling product team, you’ll operate across the full product lifecycle: shaping features from early spec and design through to launch and long-term iteration
• That means writing clean frontend code, designing and building reliable backend APIs, influencing product direction, and taking ownership of what happens after a feature ships
• If you’re drawn to work that combines technical craft with real-world impact — helping power the livelihoods of millions using Gusto products — join us!
• Design, build, and test Gusto core products across the Time domain
• Mentor other engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems out there in very complex domains and at a large scale
• Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world
• Collaborate with our Product Management, Data, Design, and Platform Engineering teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily
• Build products that our customers genuinely love

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- AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves. AI experience requirements vary by role and will be assessed during the interview process
• Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact
• Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your product area
• Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale
• Successful applicants typically have 8+ years of software development experience
• Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities
• Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks, applying and sharing best practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely across teams
• Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain; passion for creating memorable experiences for customers
• 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