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GustoSenior Staff Engineer, Expansion Experiences
Gusto is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer for Expansion Experiences to join its team. Gusto builds software that handles payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR…
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Gusto is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer for Expansion Experiences to join its team. Gusto builds software that handles payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR for more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide. In this role, you will take ownership of outcomes across the entire expansion funnel, guiding technical architecture for recommendations, nurture journeys, and conversion paths. You will enjoy a high degree of autonomy, partnering with Product, Design, and…
Job Description
Gusto is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer for Expansion Experiences to join its team. Gusto builds software that handles payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR for more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide. In this role, you will take ownership of outcomes across the entire expansion funnel, guiding technical architecture for recommendations, nurture journeys, and conversion paths. You will enjoy a high degree of autonomy, partnering with Product, Design, and Data Science to shape the roadmap, test ideas rapidly, and lead multi-quarter initiatives. Candidates should note that travel to a Gusto office for onboarding is required.
Responsibilities
- Manage outcomes across the entire expansion funnel from initial customer need to ongoing value adoption
- Establish the technical architecture and approach for recommendations and conversion journeys
- Scope and time-box projects to ship the simplest viable version and iterate based on results
- Design experiments and evaluate noisy or ambiguous data to determine what to scale or cut
- Collaborate independently with Product, Design, and Data Science to help form the product roadmap
- Elevate engineering standards via technical guidance, code reviews, and mentorship
- Delegate scoped work to other engineers and proactively identify technical and product opportunities
Requirements
- 10 or more years of software development experience
- Background building and scaling full-stack, customer-facing products
- Experience managing multi-quarter initiatives end-to-end from conception to business impact
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, lead peers through influence, and handle large-scale refactors, performance, and reliability work
- Experience using AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver capabilities
- Proficiency in producing structured, maintainable, and well-documented code with strong communication skills
Qualifications
- Background in growth, lifecycle, or conversion-focused contexts such as onboarding, upsell flows, personalization, or recommendations
- Experience or interest in working with Ruby on React, Rails, GraphQL, and TypeScript
Core Skills
Benefits
- Competitive base pay
- Company benefits
- Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
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What is the remote work policy for this role?
The position is listed as remote. However, travel to a Gusto office for onboarding is required, and secure, reliable internet is necessary for non-office or remote days.
What is the salary range for this role?
The targeted cash compensation is 191,000 to 240,000 in Denver and most remote locations, and 225,000 to 275,000 for San Francisco and New York, with additional stock equity.
What level of experience is required?
Successful applicants typically bring 10 plus years of software development experience, including building and shipping full-stack, customer-facing products at scale.
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