Staff Salesforce Engineer – AI-Driven Platform (Hybrid)

Gusto, Inc.; Denver, New York, San Francisco (CO, NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Gusto, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Unified Services Platform with hybrid work across Denver, NY, and San Francisco.

You will design, build, and maintain scalable Salesforce Apex solutions to support our Sales and CX teams, leveraging AI coding assistants across the development lifecycle. You’ll contribute to platform architecture, change/release management, and deploy best practices while writing clean, well-documented code and ensuring production systems run reliably at

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, incl. 4+ years on Salesforce Apex.
• Salesforce Platform Developer I and/or Application Architect certifications.
• Strong Salesforce architecture knowledge; experience with SF CLI and release management.
• Daily use of AI coding assistants across the development lifecycle with good judgment.
• Able to write maintainable code, including outside Salesforce; Ruby on Rails a plus.
• Proven track record of building, testing, debugging production systems at scale.
• Experience translating ambiguous requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Experience in regulated industries preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable Apex solutions on Salesforce for Sales and CX teams.
• Use AI coding assistants throughout the lifecycle to write, review, debug, and document code.
• Oversee ongoing improvements to deployed features and measure their impact.
• Apply Salesforce architecture and change/release management best practices, using sf cli for deployments.
• Write well-structured, 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 needed.

Skills

Salesforce Apex

Salesforce Certifications

SF CLI

AI coding assistants

Ruby on Rails

Production systems

Architectural translation

Tools

Salesforce CLI

Ruby on Rails

Job description

Gusto, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Unified Services Platform with hybrid work across Denver, NY, and San Francisco.

You will design, build, and maintain scalable Salesforce Apex solutions to support our Sales and CX teams, leveraging AI coding assistants across the development lifecycle. You’ll contribute to platform architecture, change/release management, and deploy best practices while writing clean, well-documented code and ensuring production systems run reliably at