Senior Staff Engineer (Tax Platform Engineering)

Join Gusto as a Senior Staff Engineer in Tax Platform Engineering. In this role, you will guide projects end-to-end, influence initial feature specs, execute on projects, and maintain code that powers core experiences. You will design, build, and test the platform that supports tax compliance for millions of people, collaborate on complex problems with cross-functional teams, and mentor and develop engineers on your team. This position offers a supportive environment, competitive benefits, and the opportunity to make a significant impact in the modern economy.

• Concevoir, construire et tester la plateforme qui soutient la conformité fiscale pour des millions de personnes.
• Collaborer sur des problèmes complexes et ambigus avec des partenariats provenant de l'ingénierie, de la gestion de produit, du design, de la science des données, de la conformité, des opérations et d'autres équipes interfonctionnelles.
• Posséder et conduire la stratégie technique et la feuille de route pour le domaine de votre équipe en alignement avec les OKR de l'équipe et du groupe.
• Experience building products in highly regulated and high risk domains
• Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software
• Bonus: Experience with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and React
• Enthusiasm for a highly collaborative, test-driven environment
• Experience in one of these domains is preferred: Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance
• Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
• Successful applicants have at least 10+ years of experience
• Embeds AI in daily development workflow (scaffolding tests, summarizing docs) to measurably reduce cycle time
• Mentors engineers on effective AI usage and helps develop an AI strategy for other engineers
• Familiar with current AI tools (LLMs, Agents) and their shortcomings / benefits
• Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production level code
• Experience influencing and guiding the work of multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products
• Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code
• An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
• Experience in designing and developing robust, distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages