Staff Software Engineer, Tax Experiences

About Gusto

At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR for more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide.

About the Team

The Tax Experiences team is a group of engineers, designers, data scientists, and product managers working to simplify the experience of collecting, calculating, paying, and filing taxes. We own everything customers see and do around taxes—from onboarding through ongoing account management, payments, and filings. This team is responsible for the full stack of work.

Responsibilities

• Execute technical strategy for the team's domain aligned with OKRs, contributing to the broader Tax Engineering roadmap.
• Design, build, and test features enabling users to manage tax information.
• Advocate for customer needs across employers and employees relying on Gusto for accurate tax filings.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, and Operations.
• Support the software platform powering first- and third-party products.
• Mentor fellow engineers and foster scalable solutions.
• Drive product development from concept to launch.
• Build design systems, components, and interfaces to improve developer productivity.
• Identify and prioritize long-term foundational systems and architectural investments.
• Incorporate AI tools into your engineering workflow to accelerate development and simplify complex tax workflows.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with expertise in React and TypeScript.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, SQL, or other backend languages.
• Experience working in large, complex codebases and delivering scalable production code incrementally.
• Experience applying AI tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and build testing.
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to build mental models of unfamiliar systems.
• Effective communication skills for articulating technical complexity to product and design partners.
• Highly collaborative mindset with an emphasis on pairing and shared investigation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain experience in Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance.

Additional Details

• A two-day onboarding trip to a Gusto office is required.