Sr Staff Software Engineer, Tax Experiences

About Gusto

At Gusto were on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stufflike payroll health insurance 401(k)s and HRso owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver San Francisco and New York were proud to support more than 400000 small businesses across the country and were building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers we serve. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.

About the Role:

Were hiring engineers to join our teams that work on core platform capabilities improving our existing systems for extensibility and scalability and building the future of Gustos Tax system. As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level youll be advocating for the roadmap communicating with stakeholders across multiple organizations influencing initial feature specs understanding how to take existing systems closer to desired end states executing on projects maintaining code that powers our experiences and mentoring other engineers at scale. If youre interested in building elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy join us!

About the Team:

Were a small group of talented engineers designers and product managers working to improve the experience of collecting calculating paying and filing taxes. Our team aims to make the complexity of dealing with hundreds of tax agencies disappear and to make compliance easy. Were responsible for the Employer and Employee experiences for tax data collection calculation payment and filing. We ensure that communication about those experiences is clear and actionable and that the systems we use to communicate those experiences are reasonable and team is responsible for the full stack of work not just the frontend. We implement work up and down the stack to build these delightful experiences and we partner regularly with all of the teams in the Tax Organization and many teams outside of it as well.

Heres what youll do day-to-day:

• Design build and test the experience that enables people to add and update their tax information at Gusto.
• Advocate for the needs of our customers employers and employees who rely on Gusto to ensure that their taxes are collected calculated and filed correctly.
• Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world
• Collaborate on complex and ambiguous problems with partnerships from Engineering Product Management Design Data Science Compliance Operations and other cross-functional teams
• Build the software platform that powers multiple 1st and 3rd party products and serves millions of businesses.
• Mentor and grow fellow engineers working to create holistic and scalable solutions
• Drive the product development process from concept to launch delivering delightful products that make payroll taxes and compliance simple and easy
• Improve the productivity and happiness of our teams with the services tools and APIs you build.
• Engage in a highly supportive environment working with others to drive productivity and innovation
• Own and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for your domain in alignment with team and group-level OKRs
• Identify and prioritize long-term investments to improve foundational systems and architecture
• Lead improvements to incident response processes tooling and culture to enhance system reliability and team effectiveness

Heres what were looking for:

• Successful applicants have at least 12 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 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 domains is desired but not required
• Experience in one of these domains is preferred: Payroll Taxes or Compliance
• Bonus: Experience with Ruby on Rails Typescript and React

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver San Francisco and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles Gustos subsidiary whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office a secure reliable and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds not just because its the right thing to do but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses you will find a home at Gusto.

Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race color religion national origin age sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) marital status ancestry physical or mental disability genetic information veteran status gender identity or expression sexual orientation or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.

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