Top Engineering Jobs

Design, build, test, and operate Gusto core customer-facing products across frontend and backend. Own multi-quarter projects, scale Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React systems, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, data, design, and platform teams, and iterate on features that deliver measurable customer impact.

Lead architecture and delivery of Gusto's Commerce Platform (product catalog, promotion engine, subscription, entitlements). Partner with product, data science, and cross-functional teams to drive large, multi-quarter platform projects, ensure reliability and SLOs, mentor engineers, and promote AI-augmented development and platform adoption.

This role involves leading technical projects across multiple teams, designing scalable systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers, focusing on payroll and tax systems at Gusto.

Lead full‑stack development for Gusto's Time and Scheduling product: design, build, test, and iterate frontend and backend systems. Mentor engineers, own multi‑quarter projects, address large‑scale refactors, performance and reliability, and collaborate with product, design, data, and platform teams to deliver customer‑focused features.

The Principal Engineer will lead technical direction across multiple teams, design architecture for financial systems, mentor engineers, and drive multi-year transformations in the Money Group.

Lead the technical design and architecture of Gusto's Commerce Platform, mentoring engineers and ensuring service reliability while collaborating across teams.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll design, build, and test Gusto's core platform services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with various teams to solve complex engineering problems.

Lead full-stack development of the signup-to-activation experience, inventing and shipping 0-to-1 AI-driven onboarding features across web, messaging channels, and third-party AI assistants. Collaborate with product, design, and data, mentor engineers, scope rapidly, and measure/iterate to improve activation metrics.

Lead full‑stack engineering work on tax experiences: design, build, test, and operate scalable systems for tax collection, payment, and filing. Drive technical strategy, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, prioritize long-term architecture, and apply AI tools to improve developer productivity and customer workflows.

Design, build, and harden asynchronous infrastructure and developer tooling to improve engineer productivity. Work on background jobs and async communication using Sidekiq, Kafka, and Karafka, collaborate with product engineers, and apply AI/LLMs for large-scale code migrations and faster incident resolution.