Staff Engineer — AI-Driven Tax Credits Platform

Gusto; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Gusto is hiring a Staff Engineer, Tax Credits to transform how tax credits are discovered and utilized for small businesses. You will work at the intersection of product excellence, customer empathy, business strategy, and artificial intelligence, delivering scalable, delightful experiences.

The role requires leading complex projects across cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and driving fast, iterative product development with a strong sense of ownership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to accelerate development.
• Ability to mentor engineers and solve complex problems at scale.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Data, Design, and Platform teams.
• Demonstrated product empathy and customer focus at scale.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails is a nice-to-have.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test Gusto core products.
• Mentor other engineers to tackle hard technical problems at scale.
• Collaborate with Product, Data, Design, and Platform Engineering to understand customer pain points, prototype, iterate, and launch daily.
• Build products that customers genuinely love and rely on.

Skills

8+ years software development

AI tools experience

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Product empathy

Strong communication

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Job description

Gusto is hiring a Staff Engineer, Tax Credits to transform how tax credits are discovered and utilized for small businesses. You will work at the intersection of product excellence, customer empathy, business strategy, and artificial intelligence, delivering scalable, delightful experiences.

The role requires leading complex projects across cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and driving fast, iterative product development with a strong sense of ownership.