Staff Software Engineer, Time and Scheduling

Gusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy, handling essential services so owners can focus on their craft. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Time / Scheduling product team to shape features across the full product lifecycle, from design to launch and iteration.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software development experience
• Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain
• Passion for creating memorable experiences for customers
• Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities
• Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks
• Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale
• Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues
• Strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your product area
• Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact
• Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code
• Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders
• Experience in, or interest working in, Ruby on Rails
• Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment