Senior Salesforce Engineer: Apex, AI-Driven & Scalable

Gusto, Inc.; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 163,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs equity

Job summary

Gusto, Inc. is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Apex solutions on the Salesforce platform for the Applications Engineering team.

You will leverage AI coding assistants during the full development lifecycle to write, review, debug, and document code, while driving improvements to deployed features with best-practice release management. The role requires a strong background in Salesforce, certifications, and excellent ability to translate ambiguous

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 4+ years developing on the Salesforce platform in Apex.
• Salesforce Platform Developer I and/or Application Architect certification(s).
• Fluent, daily use of AI coding assistants across the development lifecycle.
• Comfortable writing well-structured, maintainable code, including in codebases outside of Salesforce (Ruby on Rails a plus).
• Proven track record building, testing, and debugging reliable production systems at scale.

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.
• Apply Salesforce platform architecture and change/release management best practices, using sf cli for deployments.
• Write well-structured, easily maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Build, test, and debug reliable production systems at scale, ideally real-time, event-driven, or high-throughput.
• Contribute to codebases beyond Salesforce when the work calls for it.

Skills

Salesforce Apex

SFDC architecture

AI coding assistants

Ruby on Rails

Code maintainability

Education

Salesforce Platform Developer I

Application Architect certification

Tools

SF CLI

Claude Code

Job description

Gusto, Inc. is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Apex solutions on the Salesforce platform for the Applications Engineering team.

You will leverage AI coding assistants during the full development lifecycle to write, review, debug, and document code, while driving improvements to deployed features with best-practice release management. The role requires a strong background in Salesforce, certifications, and excellent ability to translate ambiguous