Staff Software Engineer, Time & Scheduling Platform

Gusto; United States; Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Gusto is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Time / Scheduling product team. You’ll shape features from early spec to launch, write clean frontend code, design robust backend APIs, and own outcomes after shipping.

If you’re drawn to craft with real-world impact—powering millions of livelihoods using Gusto—join us! You'll design, build, and test core Time products, mentor engineers, and help scale a large Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React application.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain; passion for creating memorable experiences for customers.
• Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities.
• Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks, applying and sharing best practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely across teams.
• Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale.
• Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact.
• Experience in, or interest working in, Ruby on Rails.
• Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment.
• Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code.
• Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test Gusto core products across the Time domain.
• Mentor other engineers to help solve complex problems at scale.
• Help scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Data, Design, and Platform Engineering teams to understand customer pain points, prototype, iterate, and launch daily.
• Build products that our customers genuinely love.

Skills

8+ years of software development

Mentor engineers

AI tools experience

AI frameworks curiosity

Own multi-quarter projects

Ruby on Rails

Test-driven development

Communication with stakeholders

Tools

Ruby on Rails

JavaScript/React

Job description

Gusto is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Time / Scheduling product team. You’ll shape features from early spec to launch, write clean frontend code, design robust backend APIs, and own outcomes after shipping.

If you’re drawn to craft with real-world impact—powering millions of livelihoods using Gusto—join us! You'll design, build, and test core Time products, mentor engineers, and help scale a large Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React application.