Staff Software Engineer, Growth Orchestration Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Job summary

Gusto is seeking seasoned staff full-stack software engineers to join our Growth team, building systems that turn customer and go-to-market signals into timely, relevant engagement experiences across the funnel.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll operate across the full product lifecycle—from early definition and design through launch and long-term iteration. You’ll write clean frontend code, design backend APIs, and own features after shipping, delivering measurable business impact at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Experience building scalable full-stack systems that solve meaningful customer or business problems.
• Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and drive measurable impact at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test full-stack platform capabilities that power signal-driven workflows and customer engagement experiences across the funnel.
• Build systems that ingest, prioritize, and route product, marketing, and sales signals into actionable next-best steps for downstream teams and tools.
• Develop backend services and internal interfaces that support orchestration, decisioning, experimentation, and delivery across evolving engagement channels.
• Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world, with a strong focus on performance, maintainability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Data, Design, Platform Engineering, and go-to-market partners to understand pain points, prototype solutions, and launch iteratively.
• Mentor other engineers to help solve complex technical problems across distributed systems, product workflows, and platform architecture.
• Build products and platforms that internal teams love to use and that create measurable customer and business impact.

Skills

Full-stack development

Mentoring

AI tooling

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

JavaScript

APIs

Job description

Gusto is seeking seasoned staff full-stack software engineers to join our Growth team, building systems that turn customer and go-to-market signals into timely, relevant engagement experiences across the funnel.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll operate across the full product lifecycle—from early definition and design through launch and long-term iteration. You’ll write clean frontend code, design backend APIs, and own features after shipping, delivering measurable business impact at scale.