Senior Staff Engineer - Tax Platform Engineering

Gusto · Engineering

Location: Chicago, IL - Remote; Denver, CO - Hybrid; New York, NY - Hybrid; San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
Metro: Chicago, Denver / Boulder, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace: Hybrid
Level: Staff+
Type: Full-time
Pay: $223K–$278K/yr (estimated from posting text)
Posted: 4 months ago
Source: Greenhouse

What the posting covers

About Gusto

At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more…

About the Role

We’re hiring seasoned engineers to join our teams that work on core platform capabilities, improving our existing systems for extensibility and scalability, and building the future of Gusto's Tax platform. As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level, you’ll be…

About the Team

Payroll is the beating heart of Gusto’s business. The Tax team ensures Gusto customers remain compliant and confident by managing every aspect of payroll taxes—including setup, calculation, payments, filings, and year-end communications. We design seamless,…

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day

Design, build, and test the platform that supports tax compliance for millions of people Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering,…

Here’s what we're looking for

Successful applicants have at least 10+ years of experience Experience in designing and developing robust, distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages Experience influencing and guiding the work of multiple teams on scaling,…

Here’s what we're looking for

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office…

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