Senior Staff Ruby on Rails Platform Engineer

Candidate; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 213,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Job summary

Gusto is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Agent & Partner Experiences team. You will lead technically while doing hands-on Rails work, bridging our API and AI layers to enable developers to embed payroll in their apps.

You will influence and mentor across the org, shipping robust, scalable software. Based in Denver or remote locations, you will collaborate with cross-functional partners to drive a high-quality platform and a remarkable experience for developers and agents.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software development experience.
• Designed and built scalable platforms and public-facing APIs.
• Led and mentored engineering teams to raise technical standards.
• Able to communicate trade-offs and align tech goals with business needs.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-impact problems across domains and coordinate solutions.
• Design API contracts and agent-facing tools for partners and AI agents.
• Engage with developer-customers to deliver a payroll product.
• Ship clean, tested, high-performance code.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring across the org.
• Maintain reliability and observability best practices.
• Troubleshoot production issues.

Skills

Ruby & Rails expertise

Platform design & APIs

Mentoring & leadership

Effective communication

API contract design

Job description

Gusto is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Agent & Partner Experiences team. You will lead technically while doing hands-on Rails work, bridging our API and AI layers to enable developers to embed payroll in their apps.

You will influence and mentor across the org, shipping robust, scalable software. Based in Denver or remote locations, you will collaborate with cross-functional partners to drive a high-quality platform and a remarkable experience for developers and agents.