Senior Staff Software Engineer Growth Onboarding
Gusto is a payroll and HR platform that helps small businesses pay domestic and international employees, manage benefits, and automate compliance.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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About Gusto
Gusto serves small and mid-sized businesses with payroll processing, employee benefits administration, and HR tools in one platform. Users can run payroll, manage health insurance, hire globally, and pay international contractors in local currency or USDC stablecoins. The platform automates payroll tax filings across multiple states and integrates with tools like QuickBooks and Xero.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the signup-to-activation experience end to end, working across data models, user interfaces, AI-powered onboarding, and multiple customer entry points. You will invent and prototype new experiences, validate hypotheses with customers, make pragmatic technical decisions, and raise engineering standards through code, reviews, technical direction, and mentorship.
Requirements
- 10-12+ years of software engineering experience
- Customer-facing product development at scale
- AI and LLM product experience
- Full-stack engineering fundamentals
- Technical leadership
- Mentorship
- Product development
- Independent execution
Responsibilities
- Own signup-to-activation experiences end to end
- Build data models and user interfaces
- Invent and prototype AI-powered onboarding experiences
- Partner with Product Design and Data to validate hypotheses
- Identify opportunities to reduce customer effort with AI
- Design modular and reusable onboarding components
- Provide technical direction and conduct code reviews
- Mentor engineers
- Scope and ship iterative product improvements
Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)