Gusto, Inc. - Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology
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Requirements
• 8+ years of experience building high-scale web systems, with strong fundamentals across both frontend and backend layers. • Strong full-stack engineering capability. You are comfortable designing APIs, modeling data, and reasoning about backend services, while being especially strong on the frontend. • Deep frontend expertise in React, TypeScript, and Next.js, including rendering strategies (SSR, SSG, ISR), performance optimization, and component architecture. • Systems-level thinking. You can design distributed systems, reason about failure modes, articulate trade-offs, and communicate architectural decisions clearly in writing and in review. • Experience applying AI tools to accelerate frontend development, improve code quality, and build intelligent user experiences. Familiar with AI-driven personalization patterns and willing to experiment with AI techniques. • Experience with web performance and caching. CDNs, edge computing, cache invalidation strategies, and how these interact with dynamic personalization. • A high technical bar, you write testable, observable, production-grade code and hold that standard for those around you. • Strong written communication. you can produce technical designs, ADRs, and proposals that serve both engineers and non-technical stakeholders. • A balance of pragmatic execution for immediate business needs and long-term architectural thinking to build a scalable, intelligent platform. • Experience in growth engineering, product engineering, or platform engineering where you have had to balance technical quality with business outcomes. • Hands-on experience with ML/AI integration. Personalization engines, recommendation systems, or predictive models embedded in production systems. • Familiarity with content delivery infrastructure. Headless CMS, dynamic rendering pipelines, or experimentation frameworks. • Experience with event-driven architectures or data pipelines used to feed AI/ML models or power real-time personalization. • Experience with customer data platforms or behavioral analytics infrastructure.
Responsibilities
• Architect and build high-performance, scalable web systems. Designing for performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability, not just immediate delivery. • Own full-stack technical decisions across the frontend rendering layer, API contracts, data modeling, and backend integrations that power our customer-facing experiences. • Design and implement distributed caching strategies across our delivery stack (CDN, edge, application layers), with a clear understanding of consistency trade-offs. • Write high-quality, well-tested code in React, TypeScript, and Next.js, setting a bar for the team on code quality, test coverage, and engineering practices. • Lead architecture reviews and system design discussions, producing clear technical proposals that account for scale, failure modes, and operational complexity. • Mentor and up-level fellow engineers, establishing best practices for full-stack development, system design, and AI-native design patterns. • Translate product and business requirements into technical architecture bridging what the business needs and what is technically sound and sustainable. • Contribute to the team's technical roadmap, ensuring your work aligns with Gusto's transition to an AI-native company and broader team goals
Benefits
• Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $225,000 - $275,000 for San Francisco, New York, and Seattle, $205,000- $255,000 in Los Angeles, $185,000 - $235,000 in Denver, and $200,000 - $250,000 CAD for Toronto, Canada. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above. • Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale. • 2-3 days • Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas. • When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees. • Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.
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