Gusto
Staff Software Engineer, HR Experience
$197K–$247K
New York, NY - Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack work.
About the job
Owns the end-to-end design, development, testing, and monitoring of full-stack features for Gusto’s HR Experience product.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain HR Experience features across the stack; monitor and improve their reliability, performance, and quality.
- Own projects from scoping and technical design through deployment and monitoring, including on-call support and incident response.
- Collaborate with product and design, review code, and mentor less-tenured engineers.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack work.
- Ability to design, build, and ship features spanning frontend, backend, and data layers with minimal oversight.
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language/framework and one modern frontend framework; solid understanding of relational databases.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, automated testing, and CI/CD; experience partnering cross-functionally and communicating technical designs.
Nice to have
- Experience in HR tech, payroll, or fintech.
- Experience designing REST or GraphQL APIs; exposure to accessibility (a11y) best practices.
Pay
$197,000–$247,000 USD base salary (New York)
Tools
Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python/Django, React, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL
AI focus
Gusto expects all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency; role-specific AI experience requirements vary and are assessed during interviews.
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