Sr Staff Frontend Engineer, Design Systems

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:

As a Sr Staff Engineer you will be instrumental in defining the future of Gustos frontend experience shaping how our product is built and interacted with by hundreds of thousands of small business owners. This role offers a unique opportunity to operate at a high level of technical influence driving major advancements in our core design system architecture tooling and practices including the strategic integration of AI. If you are passionate about maximizing developer efficiency ensuring world-class accessibility and tackling ambiguous high-impact challenges across a large engineering organization this is your chance to lead and innovate.

About the Team:

The Design Systems teams primary goal is to empower internal teams to build high-quality and cohesive UI/UX with as much efficiency as possible. We both own the reusable components and are also responsible for much of the frontend expertise across all of Gusto including accessibility frontend code quality and education. Increasingly our team is also investing in tooling to assist both designers and engineers with the creation of UI for guidance prototyping demos and production ready code.

This is a great time to join to help define the direction for the team as we tackle what new challenges and opportunities AI presents for design systems and frontend as a whole!

Heres what youll do day-to-day:

• Partner with designers to build and maintain a system of reusable components and documentation that empowers all of Gusto using but not limited to Javascript/Typescript React CSS/Sass and HTML
• Write docs to enable self-serve education of our consumers
• Develop tools to ensure that the quality performance and accessibility of Gustos reusable components continuously improve
• Develop tools to expand the pool of contributors and quality of contributions to Gustos frontend
• Coordinate across teams in building accessible modular performant frontend experiences
• Leverage AI to expand the scope and/or the quality of our design system and Gustos frontend

Heres what were looking for:

• 10 years of technical experience in a frontend engineering role
• Highly proficient in HTML CSS JavaScript React TypeScript
• Strong history of cross-functional collaboration with Design and/or other non-technical teams
• Experience in building UI components that are modular composable flexible maintainable and well-documented
• Experience with a JavaScript testing library for unit integration and end-to-end validation
• Appreciation for a collaborative test-driven environment
• Experience turning wireframes and mockups into responsive accessible tested code
• Passionate about creating inclusive accessible experiences for everyone
• Familiar with emerging trends in frontend development including the various approaches to styling (CSS Modules CSS-in-JS Sass etc.) component libraries (Material UI Carbon Polaris and Lightning) accessibility tooling (axe) observability (RUM Synthetic Testing) and AI (MCPs prompting etc.)

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $225000/yr to $275000/yr for San Francisco CA. Stock equity is additional. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

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.

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