Staff Software Engineer, Tax Accounts
Gusto, Inc. · San Francisco, CA
Posted about 3 months ago · $163,000–$204,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 81 days Gusto, Inc.'s roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 49% of Gusto, Inc.'s roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Gusto, Inc.
- high 96 stale, 9 reposted of 97 open
- Hiring momentum
- 146 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Gusto, Inc.'s own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Gusto, Inc..
About this role
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Tax Accounts team at Gusto, you will design and build systems that manage employer and employee tax accounts, ensuring compliance with various tax agencies. Your role will involve developing automation for maintaining accurate tax data, modeling complex compliance rules, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver effective solutions. Additionally, you will mentor other engineers and contribute to the overall reliability and performance of the systems.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Gusto, Inc. as an employer.
What you need
- Significant software-development experience, typically 8+ years, with demonstrated staff-level technical leadership
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale
- Experience building scalable solutions that eliminate customer pain, and a strong sense of ownership over reliability, performance, and correctness
- Comfort designing data models and APIs for a complex, rules-heavy domain (compliance, tax, payments, or similar) where edge cases and correctness matter
- Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new capabilities
- Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact
Nice to have
- Experience in, or interest working in, Ruby on Rails
- Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment
- Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code
What you get
- Competitive base pay
- Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)
- Cash compensation targeted at $163,000–$204,000 in Denver & most remote locations, and $197,000–$247,000 for San Francisco & New York
Worth weighing
- Travel to Gusto's office for onboarding is required
- Hybrid work model requires 2-3 days in the office per week for employees in designated locations
- Final offer amounts may vary based on candidate experience and expertise
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Listed by Gusto, Inc. on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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