Staff Software Engineer- Tax Credits
Gusto · New York, NY - Hybrid
Employment
Full-time
Workplace
Hybrid
About the role
Gusto is seeking a Staff Engineer for their Tax Credits team to design, build, and test core products that help small businesses discover tax credits and grants. This hybrid role is based in New York, NY, and involves working cross-functionally to solve complex engineering problems while leveraging AI tools and scaling large Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications.
Key requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain and creating memorable customer experiences
- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities
- Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale
- Experience with large scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and a strong sense of ownership over all aspects of your product area
- Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact
- Experience in, or interest working in, Ruby on Rails
- Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment with the ability to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code
- Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders
- Two-day travel to a Gusto office for onboarding is required
- Working from the New York office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week
Who should apply
Applicants who excel at distilling complex and ambiguous problems into actionable solutions, possess a strong bias for action, and have extensive software development experience working at the intersection of product excellence, customer empathy, business strategy, and artificial intelligence.
Key skills
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