Staff Software Engineer, Tax Accounts

Gusto

Staff software engineer building scalable tax-account systems for Gusto’s payroll, benefits, and HR platform. Automating agency integrations and compliance workflows for over 500,000 small businesses.

Posted 9/10/2026full-timeNew York City • California, Colorado, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $163,000 - $247,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and building scalable systems for tax compliance, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and correctness. Proficient in mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams to deliver impactful solutions in a complex domain.

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Software Development ExperienceTechnical LeadershipData Model DesignAI Tools UtilizationMentoring Engineers

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Hard Skills

Software DevelopmentData Model DesignAPI DevelopmentCompliance SystemsAutomation BuildingScalable SolutionsTax ComplianceRuby on Rails

Soft Skills

Effective CommunicationCuriosityCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

AI FrameworksTest-Driven Development

Industry Keywords

Tax AccountsAgency FilingsCompliance RulesPayments

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

RubyRuby on Rails

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and test systems for employer and employee tax accounts, including agency registrations, power-of-attorney and third-party authorizations, tax notices, agency filings, and state/federal/employee tax setup
Build automation that requests and maintains access with tax agencies on customers' behalf
Develop bots, data exchanges, and agency-event pipelines to keep accounts, rates, and deposit schedules accurate and prevent failed filings
Model jurisdiction-specific compliance rules into maintainable systems
Own reliability, performance, and correctness in a complex compliance domain
Partner with Product, Design, Tax Operations, and PEO teams to turn customer and compliance pain into solutions
Prototype, iterate, and launch products
Mentor engineers and help solve difficult large-scale technical problems
Build products customers love

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant software-development experience, typically 8+ years, with demonstrated staff-level technical leadership
Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale
Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain, with ownership of reliability, performance, and correctness
Ability to design data models and APIs for a complex, rules-heavy domain such as compliance, tax, payments, or similar
Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new capabilities
Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks
Ability to mentor engineers
Ability to communicate effectively across engineering teams and with business stakeholders
Experience in or interest in Ruby on Rails (nice to have)
Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment (nice to have)
Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code (nice to have)
Travel to Gusto's office for onboarding is required
Secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection required when working from an approved non-office location

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive base pay
Health insurance
401(k)
Equity (RSUs)
Flexible work arrangements for approved non-office locations
Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans