Senior Front End Engineer, Gusto
Compliance
$200-240k
+ Stock equity
2-3 days a week in office
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Open for applications
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$200-240k
+ Stock equity
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where work empowers a better life.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of technical experience in frontend engineering
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and TypeScript
- Experience building responsive UIs that work seamlessly across desktop and mobile
- Experience with JavaScript testing libraries for unit, integration, and end-to-end validation
- Proven experience working cross-functionally with design, product, and legal teams to implement features
- Familiarity with emerging frontend trends and best practices in performance optimization, design systems, and styling approaches
- Ability to break down complex requirements and build scalable, reusable components
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, product, and design teams
- Enthusiasm for building intuitive user experiences and simplifying complex workflows
- Understanding of frontend performance best practices and interest in optimizing for speed and maintainability
- Experience contributing to or consuming shared design systems
- You enjoy working cross-functionally to solve real-world problems with meaningful business impact
- You're excited to improve accessibility, performance, and responsiveness in customer-facing products
- You care about writing maintainable, scalable frontend code and helping evolve design systems
- You’re enthusiastic about helping small businesses navigate complex regulations through great product design
- If you’re an engineer who’s eager to shape the future of compliance products, make systems more accessible, and collaborate in a high-impact environment, we’d love to hear from you!
What the job involves
- At Gusto, we’re looking for an experienced Frontend Engineer to join our Compliance Engineering team
- You’ll work on systems that help small businesses stay compliant with key regulations (like sexual harassment training, workers' compensation, 401(k) management, and more)
- You’ll focus on building user-friendly, high-performance frontend experiences that make complex compliance workflows simple and scalable
- Build Reusable Components: Build and maintain modular, composable, and maintainable UI components using Typescript, JavaScript, React, CSS, and HTML
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with product managers, backend engineers, designers, and legal partners to translate complex compliance rules into simple and reliable product experiences
- Improve Testing and Maintainability: Write clean, well-tested code using modern testing libraries for unit, integration, and end-to-end validation
- Ensure High-Quality Standards: Write clean, maintainable code with automated tests for unit, integration, and end-to-end validation using tools
- Improve Accessibility: Deliver experiences that meet or exceed WCAG accessibility standards to ensure our platform is usable by all
- Support Scalability & Performance: Build components and experiences that are mobile responsive, performant, and capable of handling a growing user base with minimal latency
Our take
For many small businesses, vital administrative tasks such as payroll, taxes, and benefits are manual tasks that take time and energy which many SMB owners don’t have. The three co-founders of Gusto – all coming from small business backgrounds – collaborated on a Fintech company that would handle employee payments, benefits administration, and compliance support specifically for small businesses.
The company may have started slowly, as the founders focused on nailing each individual aspect of Gusto’s operations, but has now skyrocketed to unicorn status with more than 200,000 customers and a multi-billion dollar valuation. In 2021, Gusto began acquiring other companies to strengthen its offering and its position in a competitive market, including two other fintech startups, Ardius and Symmetry.
Through its continued acquisitions and fundraising efforts, the company has carved out a strong position for itself in the space. Although Gusto has found itself impacted by the macroeconomic situation, through the significant effect it has had on its clientele, the company still appears positive for the future after raising funds in 2023 that will see it reach key profitability benchmarks. It continues to consolidate its platform, for example by integrating with OpenComp to grant its users access to the company's Compensation Intelligence Platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
45% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2022
$55m
SERIES E
Aug 2021
$175m
SERIES E
Total funding: $706.1m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus a variety of mental health resources
- Flexible vacation - Gusties are encouraged to take the time off they need to continue doing great work
- Fertility treatments, parental leave, pregnancy termination, caregiving, gender-affirming surgery, hormone treatments, transgender-inclusive services, and more
- If you work at one of our homebases, enjoy food, drinks, and good conversation — on us
- Celebrate 5 or 10 years at Gusto and take a month off to recharge
- Take advantage of internet, phone, commuter, and wellness stipends each month, along with a WFH stipend and cash for anniversaries
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Joshua Reeves
(CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford and went onto co-found Gusto in 2011.
Tomer London
(CPO)Has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. Was a Researcher at Intel, and then interned at Bump Technologies. Co-founded Vizmo, a mobile self-service technologies company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.
Edward Kim
(Head of Engineering)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Was Senior Project Engineer at Volkswagen of America Electronics Research Lab and then co-founded Picwing, a printed photos company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.
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