Staff Engineer - AI-Driven Retirement Savings Platform

Gusto; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Gusto is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Retirement Money Planning to own backend services, APIs, and UI for savers managing retirement accounts. You’ll partner with Product, Design, Compliance, and Operations in a hands‑on, impact‑driven role.

You’ll design end‑to‑end systems, apply AI tooling, and drive reliability and scalability in a fast‑growing domain that affects real people’s retirement decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering in production products.
• Experience building APIs and scalable services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test retirement money planning features (401(k)s, IRAs).
• Contribute to architecture to support new capabilities.

Skills

8+ years experience

Cross‑functional collaboration

APIs & services

AI tooling in workflow

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

GraphQL

Sidekiq

Kafka

Job description

Gusto is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Retirement Money Planning to own backend services, APIs, and UI for savers managing retirement accounts. You’ll partner with Product, Design, Compliance, and Operations in a hands‑on, impact‑driven role.

You’ll design end‑to‑end systems, apply AI tooling, and drive reliability and scalability in a fast‑growing domain that affects real people’s retirement decisions.