Staff Software Engineer HR Experiences
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
Projects
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 build HR experiences for employers and employees across the full product lifecycle. You will develop AI tools and agents for HR Partners, write frontend code, design backend APIs, scale Ruby on Rails and React applications, collaborate on product development, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Experience building products in regulated or compliance-heavy domains such as HR, payroll, benefits, or tax preferred
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects with measurable customer impact
- Experience driving large cross-functional projects end-to-end through ambiguity
- Experience using agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex
- Experience building agents and MCP tools
- Ability to mentor engineers
- Experience with or interest in Ruby on Rails
- Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code
- Ability to communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and test employer-facing and employee-facing HR experiences
- Build AI tools and agents that scale HR Partner workflows
- Mentor engineers
- Scale Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/React applications
- Collaborate with Product Management, Data, Design, and Platform Engineering teams
- Prototype, iterate, and launch customer products
Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)
