Staff Salesforce Apex Engineer – AI-Driven Platform

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

Job summary

Gusto is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Apex solutions on the Salesforce platform for Sales and CX teams. You will leverage AI coding assistants to write, review, debug, and document code, and oversee deployment improvements and best practices using sf CLI.

The role requires 6+ years in software engineering with 4+ years on Salesforce, along with Salesforce Developer I certifications.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years developing on the Salesforce platform in Apex.
• Salesforce Platform Developer I and/or Application Architect certification(s).
• Strong understanding of Salesforce platform architecture, with experience using the sf CLI and Salesforce change/release management best practices.
• Fluent, daily use of AI coding assistants across the development lifecycle — writing, reviewing, debugging, and documenting code — with strong judgment on when and how to apply them.
• Comfortable writing well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code, including in codebases outside of Salesforce (Ruby on Rails experience a plus).
• Proven track record building, testing, and debugging reliable production systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable Apex solutions on the Salesforce platform that support our Sales and CX teams.
• Use AI coding assistants throughout the development lifecycle to write, review, debug, and document code.
• Oversee ongoing improvements to deployed features and measure their impact.
• Apply Salesforce platform architecture and change/release management best practices, using sf cli for deployments.
• Write well-structured, easily maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Build, test, and debug reliable production systems at scale, ideally real-time, event-driven, or high-throughput.
• Contribute to codebases beyond Salesforce when the work calls for it.

Skills

Salesforce Apex

SFDC Platform

Salesforce CLI

AI coding assistants

Ruby on Rails

Education

Salesforce Platform Developer I certification

Tools

sf CLI

Ruby on Rails

Job description

Gusto is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Apex solutions on the Salesforce platform for Sales and CX teams. You will leverage AI coding assistants to write, review, debug, and document code, and oversee deployment improvements and best practices using sf CLI.

The role requires 6+ years in software engineering with 4+ years on Salesforce, along with Salesforce Developer I certifications.