Gusto
Staff Software Engineer, Tax Accounts
$163K–$247K
Denver, CO - Hybrid +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026
- Location
- Denver, CO - Hybrid
New York, NY - Hybrid
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
New York, NY - Hybrid - Experience
- Typically 8+ years of software-development experience; no alternatives stated.
About the job
Builds and leads systems that manage employer and employee tax accounts, automate agency interactions, and keep tax compliance accurate and reliable.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and test tax-account systems, APIs, data models, and compliance workflows.
- Automate tax-agency access and events to maintain account data, rates, and deposit schedules.
- Own system reliability, performance, and correctness; partner across teams and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Typically 8+ years of software-development experience with demonstrated staff-level technical leadership.
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and deliver measurable customer impact at scale.
- Experience building scalable solutions and designing data models and APIs for complex, rules-heavy domains where correctness matters.
- Experience using AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver capabilities; ability to mentor engineers and communicate with technical and business stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience in, or interest in, Ruby on Rails.
- Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment.
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
AI focus
Use AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new capabilities; explore emerging AI frameworks and share practices for safe team adoption.
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