Senior Salesforce Engineer (Apex) + AI-Driven Dev

Gusto; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Gusto is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Apex solutions on the Salesforce platform, supporting Sales and CX teams. You will leverage AI coding assistants across the development lifecycle, write clean, well-documented code, and contribute to production systems at scale.

We value 6+ years of software experience, 4+ years with Salesforce/Apex, and relevant certifications.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 4+ years developing on the Salesforce platform in Apex.
• Salesforce certifications: Platform Dev I and/or Application Architect preferred.
• Strong understanding of SF architecture and release management practices.
• Ability to write clean, well-documented code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable Apex solutions on the Salesforce platform.
• Use AI coding assistants throughout the development lifecycle to write, review, debug, and document code.
• Oversee ongoing improvements to deployed features and measure their impact.

Skills

Apex

Salesforce

AI coding assistants

Ruby on Rails

Code reviews

Education

Salesforce Platform Developer I

Application Architect certification

Tools

SF CLI

Salesforce change/release mgmt

Claude Code

Job description

Gusto is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Apex solutions on the Salesforce platform, supporting Sales and CX teams. You will leverage AI coding assistants across the development lifecycle, write clean, well-documented code, and contribute to production systems at scale.

We value 6+ years of software experience, 4+ years with Salesforce/Apex, and relevant certifications.