Staff Salesforce Engineer — AI-Driven Unified Services Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Job summary

Gusto is hiring for an Application Engineering role focused on Salesforce Apex and scalable platforms. You will design, build, test, and deploy high‑volume production systems, leveraging AI coding assistants and SF CLI. The team supports Sales and CX with scalable, real‑time or high‑throughput solutions.

You will collaborate across architecture, deployment practices, and code quality, ensuring maintainable, well‑documented code and adherence to best practices in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years 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.
• 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.
• Able to translate ambiguous requirements into business value and advocate for scalable technical solutions.
• Experience in regulated industries preferred.

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

Salesforce Platform Developer I

Salesforce Application Architect

SF CLI

Ruby on Rails

AI coding assistants

Regulated industries

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Job description

Gusto is hiring for an Application Engineering role focused on Salesforce Apex and scalable platforms. You will design, build, test, and deploy high‑volume production systems, leveraging AI coding assistants and SF CLI. The team supports Sales and CX with scalable, real‑time or high‑throughput solutions.

You will collaborate across architecture, deployment practices, and code quality, ensuring maintainable, well‑documented code and adherence to best practices in regulated environments.