Gusto
Staff Software Engineer, Business Insurance
$163K–$247K
New York, NY - Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software development experience; 2+ years doing customer-facing products at scale.
About the job
Build and launch scalable business insurance products and AI-powered customer experiences for discovering, evaluating, and purchasing insurance.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and test reliable, scalable Business Insurance products and AI-powered experiences.
- Ship end-to-end projects, then iterate based on customer feedback and product metrics.
- Partner with product, design, and XF teams, and mentor engineers through pairing, code review, and knowledge sharing.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software development experience, including 2+ years building customer-facing products at scale.
- AI-native mindset, with AI tools naturally embedded in daily workflow.
- Experience delivering end-to-end, multi-quarter projects from planning through launch.
- Strong Platform and Application Engineering experience (e.g., services, APIs, data flows, observability).
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience building, deploying, and evaluating AI solutions in production environments.
- Experience with Ruby on Rails and Python.
Pay
$163,000–$204,000 USD base salary (Denver & most remote locations); $197,000–$247,000 USD base salary (San Francisco & New York)
Tools
Ruby on Rails, Python
AI focus
Design and implement AI-powered Business Insurance experiences; build, deploy, and evaluate AI solutions in production.
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