Senior Staff Engineer - Tax Platform Engineering
Gusto · Atlanta, GA - Hybrid; Austin, TX - Remote; Chicago, IL - Remote; Denver, CO - Hybrid; Los Angeles, CA - Remote; Miami, FL - Remote; New York, NY - Hybrid; San Francisco, CA - Hybrid; Seattle, WA - Remote
Employment
Full-time
Workplace
Hybrid
About the role
Gusto is seeking seasoned software engineers to work on core platform capabilities, scaling systems, and building the future of the Tax platform. In this role, you will guide projects end-to-end, maintain core code, and build infrastructure that ensures accurate and compliant payroll tax processing for small businesses.
Key requirements
- 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, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products
- Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production level code
- An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
- Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
- Enthusiasm for a highly collaborative, test-driven environment
- Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code
- Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software
- Experience building products in highly regulated and high risk domains
- Familiar with current AI tools and their shortcomings and benefits
- Embeds AI in daily development workflow to measurably reduce cycle time
Who should apply
Seasoned engineers with extensive experience in distributed systems and large-scale codebases who thrive on solving complex problems in highly regulated domains should apply.
Key skills
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