Staff Software Engineer, Gusto
HR Experience
$197-247k
2-3 days a week in office
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Be an early applicant
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$197-247k
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To grow the small business economy.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack work
- Demonstrated ability to design, build, and ship features spanning frontend, backend, and data layer with minimal oversight
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language/framework (e.g., Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python/Django) and one modern frontend framework (e.g., React, TypeScript)
- Solid understanding of relational databases — schema design, migrations, and query performance
- Comfortable owning a project end-to-end: scoping, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
- Strong grounding in software engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, automated testing, CI/CD
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers
- Clear written and verbal communication, including technical design docs
Desirable
- Experience in HR tech, payroll, or fintech domains
- Experience designing REST or GraphQL APIs
- Exposure to accessibility (a11y) best practices
What the job involves
- Design, build, and maintain features for the HRX Engineering (HR Experience) product surface
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code across the stack
- Participate in code review, sprint planning, and retros
- Partner with product and design to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Help monitor and improve the reliability, performance, and quality of shipped features
- Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response for owned systems
- Provide technical guidance and code-review mentorship to less-tenured engineers
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 co-founders of Gusto all come from small business backgrounds, which is why they created a platform 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 400,000 customers and a multi-billion dollar valuation. And in 2021, Gusto began acquiring other companies to strengthen its offering and position in a competitive market, including the likes of Ardius, Symmetry and Guideline.
Through its continued acquisitions and fundraising efforts, the company has carved out a strong position for itself in the space. It continues to expand its platform, for example by partnering with Parafin to launch a payroll line of credit for small businesses, and more recently launching Cofounder, an AI teammate tailored to the needs of small businesses.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
45% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
May 2022
$55m
SERIES E
Aug 2021
$175m
SERIES E
Total funding: $706.3m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
- Family care and support, including family planning and fertility benefits
- Gender-affirming care and support
- A variety of mental health resources
- Paid vacation, sick time, bereavement, and holidays, paid leaves, sabbatical, and more
- Free meals and refreshments at the office (conversation and community is an added bonus!)
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Joshua Reeves
(CEO & Co-Founder)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford and went onto co-found Gusto in 2011.
Tomer London
(CPO & Co-Founder)Has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. Was a Researcher at Intel, and then interned at Bump Technologies. Co-founded Vizmo before co-founding Gusto in 2011.
Edward Kim
(Head of Technology & Co-Founder)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Was Senior Project Engineer at Volkswagen of America Electronics Research Lab and then co-founded Picwing before co-founding Gusto in 2011.
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