Gusto
Staff Software Engineer, Core Products
$163K–$247K
New York, NY - Hybrid +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 24, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY - Hybrid
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
New York, NY - Hybrid - Experience
- Typically 10+ years of software development experience.
About the job
Build and evolve Gusto’s customer-facing products across the full lifecycle, from design and APIs through launch and iteration.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and test Gusto core products.
- Mentor engineers and help scale large applications.
- Partner with Product, Data, Design, and Platform teams to prototype, iterate, and launch customer solutions.
What they ask for
- Experience building scalable solutions that address customer pain and create memorable customer experiences.
- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver product capabilities.
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects with measurable customer impact at scale.
- Experience with large-scale refactors, performance and reliability issues, and mentoring engineers.
Nice to have
- Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks; applying and sharing practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely.
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/Rails, Javascript/React
AI focus
Use AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver product capabilities; experiment with emerging AI frameworks and evaluate and scale AI use safely.
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