Senior Staff Engineer - Tax Platform Engineering
Denver, COAll locationsDenver, COSan Francisco, CANew York, NYChicago, IL Hybrid
$223,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
We’re hiring seasoned engineers to join our teams that work on core platform capabilities, improving our existing systems for extensibility and scalability, and building the future of Gusto's Tax platform. As a Gusto Software Engineer at this level, you’ll be guiding projects end-to-end by influencing initial feature specs, understanding how to take existing systems closer to desired end states, executing on projects, and maintaining code that powers core experiences. If you’re interested in building elegant software with far-reaching effects in our modern economy, join us! Payroll is the beating heart of Gusto’s business. The Tax team ensures Gusto customers remain compliant and confident by managing every aspect of payroll taxes—including setup, calculation, payments, filings, and year-end communications. We design seamless, end-to-end experiences that simplify complex processes and build the infrastructure that keeps taxes accurate and on time. By combining reliable systems with thoughtful design, our team makes one of the most complicated parts of running a business simple for employers. Tax is a stabilizing pace layer at Gusto: continuity and trust are paramount, change is deliberate, and impact is wide. The domain is highly complex and offers the opportunity to engage in system design that simplifies this for customers.
What you'll bring
- Successful applicants have at least 10+ years of experience
- Experience in designing and developing robust, distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages
- Experience influencing and guiding the work of multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products
- Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production level code
- An aptitude and interest in bringing clarity and simplicity to complex and ambiguous problems
- Ability to communicate technical complexity and help facilitate informed tradeoffs
- Enthusiasm for a highly collaborative, test-driven environment
- Able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code
- Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software
- Experience building products in highly regulated and high risk domains
- Familiar with current AI tools (LLMs, Agents) and their shortcomings / benefits
- Embeds AI in daily development workflow (scaffolding tests, summarizing docs) to measurably reduce cycle time.