Staff Software Engineer, AI-Driven Solo Platform

Showcify, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Hybrid office—SF

Onboarding travel

Job summary

Gusto is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance the Solo platform for solopreneurs. You will own end-to-end product delivery, ship AI-native features, and collaborate across product, design, data science, and GTM to rapidly prototype solutions.

This role requires 8+ years of software engineering, full-stack proficiency (Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, GraphQL), and a proactive ownership mindset. Onboarding includes two days of travel to a Gusto office and hybrid work expectations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping full-stack features end to end.
• Proficiency across a full-stack toolkit (Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, GraphQL) and the judgment to choose the right tool for the problem.
• Demonstrated ownership of 0→1 or greenfield projects, not just extension of existing systems.
• A self-driven mindset: comfortable setting direction amid ambiguity, not just executing against a spec.
• Genuine, habitual use of AI tools in day-to-day engineering work
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with a track record of strong cross-functional partnership.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of net-new product areas, from technical design through shipping.
• Use AI as a genuine multiplier in your own workflow, and help build AI-native experiences into the product itself (including MCP tools).
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and GTM to identify customer and business problems, prototype solutions, and iterate quickly.
• Make pragmatic architecture and data-modeling decisions for problems that mostly don't have existing precedent at Gusto yet.
• Build and maintain full-stack features - from backend APIs to frontend UI - with an eye toward scalability and maintainability as the team and product grow.
• Weigh in beyond the "engineer lane" when it helps the team: product framing, design tradeoffs, or GTM considerations.
• Help define engineering practices and technical foundations for a team that's still early in its build-out.

Skills

End-to-end delivery

AI tools usage

Ownership mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

Job description

Gusto is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance the Solo platform for solopreneurs. You will own end-to-end product delivery, ship AI-native features, and collaborate across product, design, data science, and GTM to rapidly prototype solutions.

This role requires 8+ years of software engineering, full-stack proficiency (Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, GraphQL), and a proactive ownership mindset. Onboarding includes two days of travel to a Gusto office and hybrid work expectations.