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Staff Software Engineer, HR Experience
gusto · New York, NY · Posted 21 days ago
Own full-stack HR features independently from design through production, with mentorship responsibilities for junior engineers on a growing team.
About the role Owns full-stack features independently — from technical design through implementation, testing, and production monitoring — with light oversight.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain features for the HRX Engineering (HR Experience) product surface
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code across the stack
- Participate in code review, sprint planning, and retros
- Partner with product and design to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Help monitor and improve the reliability, performance, and quality of shipped features
- Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response for owned systems
- Provide technical guidance and code-review mentorship to less-tenured engineers
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack work
- Demonstrated ability to design, build, and ship features spanning frontend, backend, and data layer with
minimal oversight
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language/framework (e.g., Ruby on Rails, Node.js,
Python/Django) and one modern frontend framework (e.g., React, TypeScript)
- Solid understanding of relational databases — schema design, migrations, and query performance
- Comfortable owning a project end-to-end: scoping, technical design, implementation, testing,
deployment, and monitoring
- Strong grounding in software engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, automated testing,
CI/CD
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers
- Clear written and verbal communication, including technical design docs
Nice to have
- Experience in HR tech, payroll, or fintech domains
- Experience designing REST or GraphQL APIs
- Exposure to accessibility (a11y) best practices
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $197,000–$247,000 for New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
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