Staff Software Engineer Tax Accounts
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 design, build, and test systems for employer and employee tax accounts, including registrations, authorizations, notices, filings, and tax setup. You will automate agency access, model complex compliance rules, own reliability and correctness, collaborate across functions, mentor engineers, and launch customer-focused products.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Staff-level technical leadership
- Experience owning multi-quarter engineering projects
- Scalable solution design
- Reliability, performance, and correctness
- Data modeling
- API design
- AI tools and systems
- Ruby on Rails experience or interest
- Mentoring
- Cross-functional communication
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and test employer and employee tax account systems
- Build automation for tax agency access and account synchronization
- Model jurisdiction-specific compliance rules
- Own reliability, performance, and correctness
- Partner with Product, Design, Tax Operations, and PEO teams
- Prototype, iterate, and launch solutions
- Mentor engineers
- Build customer-focused products
Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)