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Lead design and build of scalable, resilient backend systems for Gusto Money products. Own projects end-to-end, adopt AI tooling, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers while driving product development from concept to launch.

Design, build, test, and operate Gusto core customer-facing products across frontend and backend. Own multi-quarter projects, scale Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React systems, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, data, design, and platform teams, and iterate on features that deliver measurable customer impact.

This role involves leading technical projects across multiple teams, designing scalable systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers, focusing on payroll and tax systems at Gusto.

The Principal Engineer will lead technical direction across multiple teams, design architecture for financial systems, mentor engineers, and drive multi-year transformations in the Money Group.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll design, build, and test Gusto's core platform services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with various teams to solve complex engineering problems.

Lead design and implementation of the Tax platform: build scalable, fault-tolerant systems, improve extensibility, mentor engineers, drive technical strategy and roadmap, collaborate cross-functionally, improve reliability/incident response, and build AI guardrails to safely leverage agentic LLMs for tax compliance.

Lead full‑stack development for Gusto's PEO Benefits product: design and build benefits shopping, plan recommendation flows, carrier integrations, automation agents, and MCP tools; scale Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React systems; mentor engineers; drive multi‑quarter, cross‑functional projects from spec through launch and iteration; collaborate with Product, Data, Design, and Platform teams to deliver customer‑facing features.

In this role, you'll architect and manage distributed database systems, oversee complex migrations, optimize performance, and mentor engineers, driving operational excellence.