Software Engineer - Benefits
About Gusto
Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.
Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That's why we're committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy .
We're hiring an engineer to join our teams that builds innovative and delightful benefits to our 300,000+ small business customers and their employees. In this role you will develop features and iterate across our Benefits Product. As a Gusto Software Engineer, you'll ship products and important functionality by building initial feature specs, building backend APIs, writing frontend code, and contributing to ongoing improvements for deployed features. If you're interested in creating elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy, join us!
Here's what you'll do day to day:
- Build, test, and deliver Gusto's Benefits product suite
- Collaborate with engineers to help solve some of the hardest technical problems out there in very complex domains and at a large scale
- Work and help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world
- Collaborate with our Product Management and Design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch daily
- Build a product that our customers genuinely love
Here's what we're looking for:
- Successful applicants typically have between 2-4 years of experience
- Experience as an engineer shipping products to end users and leading projects end-to-end
- Experience writing, testing and debugging code for highly reliable production systems
- Demonstrated data modeling skills
- Passion for creating memorable experiences for customers
- Interest in complex product development problems -- we use Rails & React
- Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment
- Able to build well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code
- Experience working in a complex domain such as the following would be nice, but not required:
- Health insurance, HR, Payroll, Payments, Fintech, or Tax products
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $118,000 - $140,000 in Denver. 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, Gusto's 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.
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 it's 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. If you require assistance in filling out a Gusto job application, please reach out to [email protected].