Gusto
Gusto
1,001 – 5,000 Employees
ConsultingHealthcareInsurance
Gusto is a business software platform that brings payroll, employee benefits, and core human resources operations together in one place. Its tools help small and midsize businesses automate payroll calculations, tax filings, direct deposits, deductions, and compliance workflows while connecting with other business systems. The platform also supports employee benefits, time and attendance, hiring and onboarding, talent management, and performance reviews. Gusto serves companies managing distributed or global teams, with dedicated solutions for accountants and APIs that let developers embed payroll capabilities into their own products.

Staff Software Engineer, Pricing and Packaging Engineering

Lead the architecture of Gusto’s commerce platform across pricing, packaging, subscriptions, and entitlements. Build scalable systems that support payroll, benefits, and HR products used by more than 500,000 small businesses.

Description

  • Own technical design and architecture for commerce platform capabilities, including product catalog, promotions, subscriptions, and entitlements
  • Maintain reliable, performant platform services that support business and customer needs
  • Shape the technical roadmap with product managers and partner engineering teams while driving platform adoption
  • Deliver complex initiatives end to end, from requirements and technical scoping through rollout and post-launch improvements
  • Develop engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and practical technical mentorship
  • Use AI tools to improve engineering speed and establish AI-assisted development practices across the team
  • Work with marketing and business partners to improve self-service management of products, bundles, promotions, and discounts
  • Help new offerings reach customers more quickly

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of professional software development experience
  • Extensive experience building and operating large-scale backend platforms, preferably in commerce, billing, subscriptions, pricing, or packaging
  • Track record of owning multi-quarter initiatives that address complex engineering challenges and deliver measurable customer impact at scale
  • Strong expertise in distributed systems, API design, and service reliability
  • Experience establishing and achieving production service-level objectives
  • Ability to lead technical programs across engineering, product, and business teams and align stakeholders around a common vision
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers
  • Experience leading large-scale refactoring, performance and reliability improvements, and ownership of a product area
  • Active use of relevant AI tools and willingness to continue developing AI fluency
  • Willingness to travel to Gusto’s office for required onboarding

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary
  • Health insurance coverage
  • 401(k) plan
  • Restricted stock units
  • A secure, dependable, and consistent internet connection is required when approved to work outside an office
  • Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans

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