Gusto
Senior Staff Engineer, Expansion Experiences
$191K–$275K
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- Typically 10+ years of software development experience.
About the job
Own the technical strategy and outcomes for product experiences that help small businesses discover and adopt additional Gusto products, features, and plans.
What you'll do
- Lead architecture and delivery across the expansion funnel, including recommendations and conversion journeys.
- Design experiments, evaluate results, and iterate on solutions to improve business outcomes.
- Shape roadmaps with Product, Design, and Data Science; provide technical direction, code review, mentoring, and delegation.
What they ask for
- Full-stack software development experience building and shipping customer-facing products at scale.
- Product-minded, independent execution across product, design, and data partners; able to work through ambiguity and influence peers.
- Experience owning multi-quarter initiatives end to end, with measurable business impact.
- Strong technical ownership, including large-scale refactors, performance, reliability, maintainable code, and mentoring engineers.
Nice to have
- Experience in or interest in Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, and TypeScript.
- Experience in growth, lifecycle, or conversion-focused work, or demonstrated ability to think in these terms.
Pay
191,000–240,000 USD base salary (Denver & most remote locations); 225,000–275,000 USD base salary (San Francisco & New York)
Tools
Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, TypeScript
AI focus
Use AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver product capabilities; Gusto expects team members to engage with role-relevant AI tools and build fluency.
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