Gusto
Staff Software Engineer, PEO
$163K–$247K
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Own the end-to-end PEO onboarding experience, from business discovery through setup, and shape its technical direction and customer outcomes.
What you'll do
- Lead PEO onboarding design and implementation, coordinating with other teams to create a coherent customer journey.
- Set technical direction and engineering standards; measure onboarding performance and use experiments to improve conversion.
- Use AI tools in engineering work and build AI-assisted guidance into onboarding to help customers get unstuck.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including meaningful ownership of customer-facing product surfaces in a large production codebase.
- Strong full-stack range across mature server-side code and modern component-based frontend.
- Demonstrated AI fluency, including day-to-day use of AI tools and ability to discuss their strengths and limitations.
- High ownership in ambiguity and strong cross-team collaboration and influence.
Nice to have
- Ruby on Rails and React/TypeScript experience.
- Growth experience, such as funnels, conversion, product configuration, or customer provisioning.
Pay
$163,000–$204,000 USD base salary; $197,000–$247,000 USD base salary
Tools
Ruby on Rails, React/TypeScript
AI focus
Use AI tools for coding, review, debugging, and codebase exploration; build AI-assisted onboarding guidance for customers.
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