Staff Software Engineer, Gusto
Retirement AI
$187-284k
+ 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
$187-284k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To grow the small business economy.
Role
Who you are
- If you like being hands-on, making pragmatic technical decisions, working closely with product & design partners, and turning ideas into production features, you’ll be a great fit
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms
- Hands-on experience implementing LLM-powered features (e.g., RAG flows, agents, tool loops, workflow automation with language models, etc)
- Strong engineering skills (e.g., services, APIs, data flows); comfortable spending most of your time coding
- Experience running or heavily contributing to a team’s execution: sprints, Jira, scoping, and cross-functional coordination
- Bias to action: you default to trying things, iterating, and learning, rather than getting stuck in analysis or waiting for direction
- Clear communicator who can work well with product, design, and other engineering teams without needing a formal management title
- Experienced with Ruby on Rails (or any comparable language), React (or any comparable library)
What the job involves
- You’ll be a key engineer helping us ship real, user-facing AI at Gusto Retirement. This role is all about bias to action: owning problems end-to-end, getting working software in front of customers, and iterating quickly
- You’ll work closely with a small, senior team to implement language-model-powered experiences.
- We’re a small, focused AI product team building practical, high-impact experiences to help people save for retirement at Gusto Retirement
- The team is senior, collaborative, and very execution-focused—PMs bring strong ideas, and we own the execution fully. We work closely with product, design, and partner engineering teams, but keep tight ownership of our priorities and roadmap
- Design, build, and ship production features that use large language models to solve real customer problems
- Implement and integrate LLMs (prompting, tool loops, evaluation, monitoring, etc)
- Make pragmatic architecture decisions, de-risk tricky areas, and keep the work unblocked
- Partner with product and design to refine ideas, shape scope, and iterate quickly on end-to-end experiences
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to integrate with existing systems and unblock dependencies
- Write clear, reliable, well-tested code that ships quickly and scales well
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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