Senior Staff Engineer, AI-Powered Growth Onboarding

Gusto; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 223,000 - 278,000; Full time

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Equity (RSUs)

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Benefits

Job summary

Gusto in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Growth Onboarding, responsible for designing and shipping end-to-end onboarding experiences that leverage AI across web, SMS, and third-party assistants. You'll work across product, design, data, and engineering as a founder-minded leader.

You will own significant parts of signup-to-activation, prototype new AI-driven flows, mentor engineers, and help set the technical direction while delivering measurable impact on

Qualifications

• 10-12+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping customer-facing products at scale.
• Product-minded engineer who starts from the customer problem and the metric that matters.
• Demonstrated ability to move quickly and ship with high quality.

Responsibilities

• Own meaningful slices of the signup-to-activation experience end to end from data model to UI.
• Invent and prototype net-new AI-driven onboarding experiences.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Data to frame problems and validate with customers.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Customer-facing product experience

AI/LLM experience

Mentorship & technical leadership

Ownership & initiative

Job description

Gusto in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Growth Onboarding, responsible for designing and shipping end-to-end onboarding experiences that leverage AI across web, SMS, and third-party assistants. You'll work across product, design, data, and engineering as a founder-minded leader.

You will own significant parts of signup-to-activation, prototype new AI-driven flows, mentor engineers, and help set the technical direction while delivering measurable impact on