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GustoStaff Software Engineer, PEO Growth
Gusto operates a platform serving over half a million small businesses across the United States by managing payroll, employee health coverage, 401(k) plans, and human resources…
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Gusto operates a platform serving over half a million small businesses across the United States by managing payroll, employee health coverage, 401(k) plans, and human resources tasks. As part of a major strategic initiative, the company is expanding its Professional Employer Organization (PEO) product line, allowing the business to act as a co-employer and handle complex compliance and benefits administration. The organization is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, PEO Growth…
Job Description
Gusto operates a platform serving over half a million small businesses across the United States by managing payroll, employee health coverage, 401(k) plans, and human resources tasks. As part of a major strategic initiative, the company is expanding its Professional Employer Organization (PEO) product line, allowing the business to act as a co-employer and handle complex compliance and benefits administration.
The organization is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, PEO Growth to spearhead the entire customer acquisition and setup pipeline in San Francisco. This hybrid position requires working from the San Francisco office approximately two to three days each week. In this capacity, you will guide how small business owners discover, adopt, and onboard onto the PEO offering, ensuring disparate features function as a single unified product.
This role fits engineers who excel at navigating ambiguity, collaborating across cross-functional pods, and applying artificial intelligence tools directly into daily coding workflows and product features. You will define technical roadmaps, establish metrics to monitor funnel performance, and elevate engineering standards in a heavily regulated domain where precision matters.
Responsibilities
- Manage the complete PEO onboarding lifecycle from initial discovery through final account configuration.
- Establish technical strategies by translating vague product goals into robust architectures and scalable abstractions.
- Collaborate across multiple application teams to connect various domains into a unified user journey and resolve ownership ambiguities.
- Integrate artificial intelligence into daily engineering duties including code generation, review, debugging, and exploration.
- Build AI-driven assistance features directly into the onboarding workflow to help customers resolve blockers independently.
- Instrument conversion funnels, define and track performance metrics, and utilize empirical experiments to drive product iterations.
- Maintain high engineering standards through thorough code reviews, testing protocols, observability improvements, and architectural judgment calls.
Requirements
- Possess at least eight years of professional software development experience.
- Demonstrate a history of owning customer-facing product features within large-scale production codebases.
- Exhibit strong full-stack engineering proficiency across mature server-side environments and modern component-based frontend architectures.
- Show active AI fluency by utilizing relevant tooling in everyday development work and understanding its practical strengths and limitations.
- Demonstrate high ownership and the ability to autonomously shape vague business demands into shipped software.
Qualifications
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Familiarity with Ruby on Rails and React or TypeScript.
- Prior background working on growth systems, user funnels, conversion optimization, or plan configuration workflows.
Core Skills
Benefits
- Competitive base salary depending on location and experience level.
- Stock equity in the form of restricted stock units.
- Comprehensive benefit offerings available to full-time staff.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the employment type for this position?
This is a full-time position.
Where is the job located and what is the remote policy?
The role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid remote schedule, requiring employees to work from the office approximately two to three days per week.
What salary does this position offer?
The exact salary is not stated in the source posting, though base pay is determined by role, level, and location alongside stock equity.
How many years of experience are required?
Candidates must have eight or more years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time managing customer-facing product components in a major production codebase.
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