Gusto
Staff Software Engineer, Retirement Money Planning
$163K–$247K
Burlingame, CA - Hybrid +4 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Location
- Burlingame, CA - Hybrid
Denver, CO - Hybrid
New York, NY - Hybrid
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid - Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms.
About the job
Build and own full-stack systems that help savers manage retirement accounts, contributions, portfolios, and withdrawals.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and test saver experiences and backend services and APIs.
- Improve system architecture, reliability, observability, and operational tooling; support production systems.
- Collaborate across engineering and business teams, and use AI tools to improve engineering workflows and saver experiences.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms.
- Experience with Ruby on Rails (required), services and APIs, and message-based systems.
- Strong experience with large modern frontend applications; experience with GraphQL.
- Ability to own systems end-to-end, including production support and operational work.
Pay
$163,000–$204,000 USD base salary in Denver; $197,000–$247,000 USD base salary for San Francisco & New York
Tools
Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Kafka, React, GraphQL
AI focus
Use AI tools regularly in engineering work and consider how AI can reduce saver effort, simplify retirement decisions, and provide proactive guidance.
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