Senior Staff Software Engineer, Onboarding and Activation

📋 Description

• Own meaningful slices of the signup-to-activation experience end to end — from data model to UI —
• Invent and prototype net-new, 0-to-1 experiences — bringing your own ideas for how AI can reimagine
• Partner directly with Product, Design, and Data to frame problems, form hypotheses, and validate
• Identify where AI meaningfully removes customer effort (and where a simple form is better), and
• Design onboarding as modular, reusable building blocks so new entry points into Gusto can be added
• Raise the engineering bar through pragmatic technical direction, high-quality code, strong reviews

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including building and shipping customer-facing
• A product-minded engineer who starts from the customer problem and the metric that matters, not
• Demonstrated ability to move fast and execute with high quality: someone who ships, measures, and
• Experience applying AI/LLM capabilities to real product problems — with the judgment to know where
• A founder mindset: high ownership, comfort with ambiguity and greenfield problems, and a bias
• A track record of raising the bar for teams around you — through technical leadership, mentorship

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive base pay
• Stock equity (RSUs)
• Health insurance
• 401(k)
• Hybrid work model
• Equal employment opportunity