Staff Software Engineer, Tax Accounts — AI-Driven Compliance

Gusto, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Gusto is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Tax Accounts team. You will own the design and delivery of systems that manage employer and employee tax accounts across jurisdictions, with a focus on reliability, performance, and correctness at scale.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, Tax Operations, and PEO teams, mentor engineers, and ship capabilities that reduce compliance friction for thousands of customers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience with demonstrated staff-level leadership.
• Proven track record owning multi-quarter engineering projects with measurable impact.
• Experience designing scalable data models and APIs for complex domains.
• Strong ownership mindset for reliability, performance, and correctness.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test systems behind tax accounts across jurisdictions.
• Develop automation for agency access and data exchanges to keep filings in order.
• Model rules-heavy compliance logic into reliable software components.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Tax Operations, and PEO teams to deliver solutions.
• Mentor engineers and tackle challenging problems at scale.
• Build products that customers genuinely love.

Skills

Staff-level leadership

Multi-quarter project ownership

Reliability ownership

API/data modeling

Job description

Gusto is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Tax Accounts team. You will own the design and delivery of systems that manage employer and employee tax accounts across jurisdictions, with a focus on reliability, performance, and correctness at scale.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, Tax Operations, and PEO teams, mentor engineers, and ship capabilities that reduce compliance friction for thousands of customers.