Senior Staff Engineer - Tax Platform Engineering
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GustoPayroll tax
Austin, TX - Remote; Chicago, IL - Remote; Los Angeles, CA - Remote; Miami, FL - Remote; Seattle, WA - RemoteFull-TimeStaff
SalaryOur cash compensation for this role is targeted at $189,000–$236,000 per year in Denver and most remote locations, and $223,000–$278,000 per year in San Francisco and New York. Stock equity is offered in addition.
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Job Details
- Experience
- At least 10+ years of experience
- Required Skills
- Ruby on RailsTypeScriptReactDistributed Systems
Requirements
- At least 10+ years of experience.
- Experience designing and developing robust distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages.
- Experience influencing and guiding multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products.
- Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production-level code.
- Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software.
- Experience building products in highly regulated and high-risk domains.
- Familiarity with current AI tools, including LLMs and agents, and their benefits and shortcomings.
- Use AI in daily development workflows, such as scaffolding tests and summarizing documents, to measurably reduce cycle time.
- Mentor engineers on effective AI use and help develop an AI strategy for engineers.
- Build maintainable, structured, well-documented code.
- Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React experience is a bonus.
- Payroll, taxes, or compliance domain experience is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and test the platform that supports tax compliance for millions of people.
- Help scale large Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Operations, and other teams on complex problems.
- Build services, tools, and APIs to improve team productivity.
- Build guardrails for safe, compliant, accurate, stable, and reliable agentic AI use in tax workflows.
- Own and drive technical strategy and the roadmap for the team's domain area in alignment with team and group-level OKRs.
- Identify and prioritize long-term investments in foundational systems and architecture.
- Lead improvements to incident response processes, tooling, and culture.
- Mentor engineers through pairing, code review, and knowledge sharing.
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