Staff Software Engineer, Reporting Platform (Frontend)

About Gusto

At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff—like payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR—so owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we’re proud to support more than 400,000 small businesses across the country, and we’re building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers we serve. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy. 

About the Role:

The Reporting Platform team at Gusto empowers business owners to make better decisions with data and insights through reports and visualizations that span our product lines. As a member of our Reporting Platform team, you will create and maintain reports and enable engineering teams to deposit and consume data from our reporting platform. The Platform organization at Gusto is in its early stages of building foundational components that can be reused consistently across our product lines. This is an exciting opportunity for engineers passionate about platform engineering and data at scale. We are looking for a talented frontend-leaning full stack software engineer with experience building and maintaining SaaS-based solutions.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Collaboratively design and implement reports and visualizations across Gusto’s product suite in our Ruby on Rails/React-based stack.
• Migrate reports from our legacy infrastructure (Rails/MySQL) to our new reporting platform (Rails/Cube/Clickhouse).
• Frequently demonstrate your work to your team and the broader engineering organization.
• Improve the quality of our offerings by participating in support rotations and maintaining a prioritized backlog of technical debt and SRE improvements.
• Lead and mentor fellow engineers in tackling complex technical challenges at scale.
• Prototype, iterate, and launch new features quickly and efficiently.
• Foster a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and innovation, building products our customers love.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience. You have been a technical owner for initiatives that have spanned multiple development teams.
• Highly proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, TypeScript
• Very strong understanding of SaaS fundamentals. You know how to build and ship SaaS products safely and monitor them in production. You are a go-to person in your organization for complex technical issues. You can take highly ambiguous problems and clarify them based on business context. You are experienced at breaking down these projects, scaffolding them for teams, and helping them execute their achievement.
• Members of our platform teams must be excellent communicators. You will spend time interacting with technical counterparts across engineering to understand their problems and help them onboard our solutions.
• Technologies change over time. To succeed in this role, you must jump into unfamiliar areas and quickly develop expertise. We are looking for someone excited about learning new domains and quickly building deep expertise in our technical systems and how our business works.
• You value breaking down problems and quickly deploying work to production to gather learnings and iterate.

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas. 

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto. 

Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.

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