Staff Software Engineer Tax 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
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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 tax information experiences across the stack. You will execute technical strategy, advocate for customers, collaborate on complex problems, support scalable platforms, mentor engineers, drive products from concept to launch, improve foundational systems, and apply AI to simplify tax workflows.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- React
- TypeScript
- Ruby on Rails, SQL, or another backend language
- Large and complex codebase experience
- Production-level software development
- AI-assisted development workflows
- Collaborative working style
- Technical communication
- Systems thinking
- Payroll, tax, or compliance experience preferred
Responsibilities
- Execute technical strategy for the team's domain
- Design, build, and test tax information experiences
- Advocate for employer and employee tax needs
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, and Operations
- Support scalable software platforms
- Mentor and grow engineers
- Drive product development from concept to launch
- Build design systems, components, and interfaces
- Prioritize foundational system and architecture investments
- Apply AI tools to engineering and product workflows
Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)
