Gusto
Staff Software Engineer, Unified Services Platform
$163K–$247K
Denver, CO - Hybrid +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Location
- Denver, CO - Hybrid
New York, NY - Hybrid
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid - Experience
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years developing on Salesforce in Apex.
About the job
Designs and maintains scalable Salesforce services and production systems that support Gusto’s Sales and Customer Experience teams.
What you'll do
- Build, test, debug, and maintain scalable Apex solutions and reliable production systems.
- Use AI coding assistants throughout development, and apply Salesforce architecture and release-management practices, including deployments with sf cli.
- Improve deployed features, measure their impact, and contribute to codebases beyond Salesforce when needed.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years developing on the Salesforce platform in Apex.
- Salesforce Platform Developer I and/or Application Architect certification(s).
- Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture, sf CLI, and Salesforce change/release management best practices.
- Daily use of AI coding assistants across the development lifecycle; experience building, testing, and debugging reliable production systems at scale.
Nice to have
- Ruby on Rails experience.
- Experience in regulated industries.
Pay
$163,000–$204,000 USD base salary; $197,000–$247,000 USD base salary
Tools
Salesforce, Apex, sf cli, Claude Code, Ruby on Rails
AI focus
Use AI coding assistants to write, review, debug, and document code throughout the development lifecycle; fluency and sound judgment are expected.
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