Senior Staff Engineer - Tax Platform Engineering
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GustoPayroll tax
Listing locations: USAFull-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
- Have at least 10 years of experience.
- Have experience designing and developing robust distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages.
- Have experience influencing and guiding multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products.
- Have experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production-level code.
- Have experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software.
- Have experience building products in highly regulated and high-risk domains.
- Be familiar with current AI tools, including LLMs and agents, and their benefits and limitations.
- Use AI in daily development workflows, such as scaffolding tests and summarizing documentation, to measurably reduce cycle time.
- Have experience mentoring engineers on effective AI usage and helping develop an AI strategy for engineers.
- Be able to build maintainable, structured, well-documented code.
- Bring an aptitude and interest in clarifying complex and ambiguous problems.
- Be able to communicate technical complexity and facilitate informed tradeoffs.
- Be enthusiastic about collaborative, test-driven work.
- Experience in Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance is preferred; Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React experience is a bonus.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and test the platform supporting tax compliance.
- Scale the 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 that support compliant, accurate, stable, and reliable agentic AI interactions with tax concepts.
- Own and drive technical strategy and the roadmap for the team's domain area in alignment with team and group OKRs.
- Identify and prioritize long-term investments in foundational systems and architecture.
- Improve incident response processes, tooling, and practices to enhance reliability and team effectiveness.
- Mentor engineers through pairing, code review, and knowledge sharing.
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