What you'll do
- Lead architectural improvements to Gusto's benefits platform focusing on AI-native capabilities and scalability.
- Design and build full-stack platform features enabling customers to explore, apply, and maintain benefits.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Sales, and Operations to align technical solutions with business needs.
- Mentor engineers and establish best practices for AI-driven design patterns and high-quality, well-tested code.
- Drive the technical roadmap ensuring alignment with Gusto’s AI-native strategy and scalable platform goals.
What you should know
- Role requires balancing pragmatic execution with long-term architectural thinking in a fast-evolving AI context.
- Opportunity to work on AI-powered personalization and intelligent customer-facing benefits experiences.
- Work environment involves strong cross-functional collaboration with business and technical teams.
- Candidates should be comfortable with mentoring and leading within a large engineering organization.
- Hybrid onsite work expected 2-3 days per week in New York, supporting a blend of remote and office presence.
About the company
- Gusto is a mission-driven company focused on growing the small business economy by simplifying payroll, benefits, and HR.
- Supports over 400,000 small businesses across the U.S. with offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York.
- Values diversity and inclusion, hiring from a wide variety of backgrounds to strengthen the company culture.
- Committed to equal opportunity employment and providing accommodations to ensure candidate success.
- Emphasizes a hybrid work model with physical offices and flexible remote work policies.
Key required skills
ReactTypeScriptNext.jsAPI developmentData modelingCI/CDObservabilityAI toolsRuby on Rails