Staff Software Engineer (Tax Experiences)

Join Gusto as a Staff Software Engineer in the Tax Experiences team. You'll be responsible for the full stack of work, collaborating with various teams in the Tax Organization and beyond. Your role will involve executing the technical strategy for your team's domain, designing and building the tax information experience, and advocating for customer needs. You'll also mentor fellow engineers, drive the product development process, and identify long-term investments to improve foundational systems.

• Concevoir, construire et tester l'expérience qui permet aux utilisateurs d'ajouter et de mettre à jour leurs informations fiscales.
• Collaborer sur des problèmes complexes et ambigus avec des partenariats à travers l'ingénierie, la gestion de produit, le design, la science des données, la conformité, les opérations et d'autres équipes interfonctionnelles.
• Mentorer et faire grandir d'autres ingénieurs en travaillant à créer des solutions holistiques et évolutives.
• A preference for working collaboratively with people, not in a silo. Pairing, thought partnership, and shared investigation feel natural, not like overhead
• Experience in one of these domains is preferred: Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with expertise in React, TypeScript, as well as experience with Ruby on Rails, SQL, or other backend languages
• Strong systems thinking: the ability to build mental models of unfamiliar systems, ask the right questions, and produce clear analysis that others can act on
• Experience applying AI tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and build testing. Familiar with AI-assisted development workflows
• Able to communicate technical complexity clearly to product and design partners, and help the team navigate tradeoffs with full context
• An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
• Experience working in large, complex codebases and a demonstrated ability to improve them incrementally without breaking things. Designing, building, and testing production level code that functions at scale