Senior Staff Engineer, Tax Platform & AI Guardrails

Gusto; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 223,000 - 278,000; Full time

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Job summary

Gusto is hiring seasoned engineers to advance the Tax platform, scaling large distributed systems and guiding cross‑functional teams from design to deployment. You’ll contribute to core platform capabilities that handle payroll taxes and compliance for millions of users, while mentoring peers and driving architectural improvements.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Engineering, PM, Design, Data Science, and Compliance, with a focus on reliability and scalable software that enables

Qualifications

• Proven track record designing robust, distributed systems
• Ability to guide work across multiple teams on scaling and refactoring
• Experience architecting and testing large-scale production code
• Strong communication to explain technical tradeoffs and decisions
• Familiarity with AI tools and embedding AI into development workflows

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test platform components for tax compliance
• Scale Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Engineering, PM, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations
• Improve developer productivity with robust services, tools, and APIs
• Integrate guardrails for compliant use of AI in tax concepts; ensure reliability

Skills

10+ years

Distributed systems

Cross-team collaboration

Communication of complexity

AI tools

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Gusto is hiring seasoned engineers to advance the Tax platform, scaling large distributed systems and guiding cross‑functional teams from design to deployment. You’ll contribute to core platform capabilities that handle payroll taxes and compliance for millions of users, while mentoring peers and driving architectural improvements.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Engineering, PM, Design, Data Science, and Compliance, with a focus on reliability and scalable software that enables