Senior Staff Software Engineer (Benefits)
Company: Gusto
Location: New York, NY - Hybrid
Salary: $225k - $265k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-09-23
About this role
- As a Staff Software Engineer on the Benefits Advisory team, you will be directly accountable for key architectural improvements to Gusto’s benefits platform. This is a full-stack role where you will design and build platform capabilities that enable customers to explore, apply for, and maintain their benefits within your product area
- Your work will focus on transforming our benefits opportunity, shopping and renewal flows, creating clear system boundaries that enable efficient reuse and increased scalability, allowing the ability to offer a wider variety of products more quickly. You will design services that continue to scale the organization, with an emphasis on enabling novel AI-driven interfaces to deliver a delightful benefits shopping experience
- You’ll operate at the intersection of marketing, sales, operations and engineering. If you are passionate about building highly scalable systems that can reason, predict, and personalize to unlock Gusto Benefits’ next phase of sustainable growth, we’d love to have you join our team
- The Benefits Advisory team is building the next generation of infrastructure that powers benefits applications, making it easier than ever to give customers access to the absolute best benefits for their needs
- Our mission is to build a robust system that informs our customers of the most relevant benefits options, making it easier than ever to confidently fulfill benefits that fit our customers current and future needs. We’re building a world-class technology platform designed to understand customer context in real-time, and continuously improve through data and feedback. This means rapid experimentation, fast learning, and strong cross-functional partnership
- We prioritize quality, observability, and uptime because these intelligent systems are fundamental to Gusto’s growth and brand. We partner closely with Marketing, Sales, and Operations to build and connect the AI-powered tools they use every day
- Architect and evolve our cu...