Staff Engineer — PEO Growth & Onboarding Lead

Provyne; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Job summary

Gusto is building a PEO Growth product and seeks a Staff Engineer to own the onboarding journey from discovery to full setup. You’ll influence cross-team design and shipping in a regulated domain, balancing product bets with durable technical foundations.

Join a pod of engineers, product managers, and designers and help scale the customer experience end-to-end. This role requires strong ownership, AI fluency, and the ability to ship with imperfect information.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field, or equivalent.
• Experience with AI tooling and building customer-facing surfaces.

Responsibilities

• Own the PEO Onboarding experience end to end — learn about the PEO, commit to it, and set up customers.
• Set technical direction: turn ambiguous product bets into designs, sequencing, and durable abstractions.
• Build in a regulated domain where quality and accuracy is critical.
• Partner across other app teams to integrate domains into one coherent journey, negotiating ownership seams.
• Use AI as part of your workflow — coding agents, review, debugging, and codebase exploration, and embed AI-guided onboarding.
• Instrument the funnel and measure success, using experiments to guide changes.
• Raise the engineering bar with reviews, testing, observability, and prudent build decisions.

Skills

Full-stack

Ruby on Rails

React/TypeScript

AI fluency

Ownership & ambiguity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Gusto is building a PEO Growth product and seeks a Staff Engineer to own the onboarding journey from discovery to full setup. You’ll influence cross-team design and shipping in a regulated domain, balancing product bets with durable technical foundations.

Join a pod of engineers, product managers, and designers and help scale the customer experience end-to-end. This role requires strong ownership, AI fluency, and the ability to ship with imperfect information.