Gusto

Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Benefits Advisory team, you will be directly accountable for key architectural improvements to Gusto's benefits platform. This is a full-stack role where you will design and build platform capabilities that enable customers to explore, apply for, and maintain their benefits within your product area.

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 than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the pe

Requirements & Eligibility

• 8+ years of experience building scalable full-stack web applications
• Expertise in frontend (React, TypeScript)
• Expertise in backend (API development, data modeling, database schema design)
• Extensive experience building AI interfaces, iterating on prompts and maintaining high quality evals
• Extensive experience applying AI tools to accelerate full-stack development, improve code quality, and build intelligent user experiences

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve our customer-facing web platforms with a focus on scale and performance
• Build innovative AI interfaces to best assist our customers
• Design, build, and maintain shared services to enable rapid iteration on product offerings
• Implement and optimize key workflows for a best-in-class customer experience
• Write high-quality, well-tested code across the stack, leveraging AI-powered tools to accelerate development and improve reliability
• Support, mentor, and up-level fellow engineers on the team, helping to establish best practices for AI-native design patterns
• Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, Sales, Operations and leadership to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Influence the technical roadmap for your area of the Benefits Advisory platform