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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer, Tax Accounts - **Company:** Gusto - **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $163,000.0 - $204,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Acceptance Test-Driven Development, Build Automation, Ruby on Rails, Front End Software Development - **Published:** August 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/364c369d-d675-476e-8885-5296f8739009 ## About the Role * 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 - plus curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks, and a habit of sharing best practices to scale AI use safely across the team * Ability to mentor engineers to maximize their performance and impact * Ability to communicate effectively across engineering teams and with business stakeholders 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 * Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders Please note that travel to Gusto's office for onboarding is required for this position. If you have any questions regarding this requirement, please share with your recruiter. ## Description We're looking for a staff software engineer to join Tax Accounts - the team whose job is to make the complexity of dealing with hundreds of tax agencies disappear. We're the steward of every Gusto customer's employer and employee tax account data: the registrations, authorizations, rates, and setup that let us withhold, pay, and file correctly on their behalf. Get it right and businesses stay compliant without thinking about it; get it wrong and it costs them real money and trust. As a Staff Software Engineer on Tax Accounts, you'll operate across the full product lifecycle: clean frontend code, reliable backend APIs and data models against a genuinely complex compliance domain, and the automation that keeps hundreds of thousands of accounts in sync with the agencies behind them. If you want technical craft with far-reaching impact in our modern economy helping power the livelihoods of millions of small business employees - join us. Here's what you'll do day-to-day: * Design, build, and test the systems behind employer and employee tax accounts: agency registrations, power-of-attorney / third-party authorizations, tax notices, agency filings, and state/federal/employee tax setup across jurisdictions * Build automation that requests and maintains access with tax agencies on the customer's behalf - the bots, data exchanges, and agency-event pipelines that keep accounts, rates, and deposit schedules accurate and prevent failed filings * Model complex, jurisdiction-specific compliance rules into maintainable systems, and own reliability, performance, and correctness in a domain where accuracy is non-negotiable * Partner closely with Product, Design, Tax Operations, and PEO teams to turn customer and compliance pain into solutions - then prototype, iterate, and launch * Mentor other engineers and help the team solve some of the hardest problems in a very complex domain, at large scale * Build products that our customers genuinely love ## Related Videos - [Coffee with Developers: David Heinemeier Hansson](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/875-coffee-with-developers-david-heinemeier-hansson) - [The perfect CI/CD React Native pipeline with Fastlane](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/556-the-perfect-ci-cd-react-native-pipeline-with-fastlane) - [Edit Your Future: Queerverse Radical AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/909-edit-your-future-queerverse-radical-ai) - [How One Developer Built the Back Office for 10 Million Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100082-how-one-developer-built-the-back-office-for-10-million-companies) - [Always on the Right Track with Rails with Eileen Uchitelle, Senior System Engineer at GitHub](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100358-always-on-the-right-track-with-rails-with-eileen-uchitelle-senior-system-engineer-at-github) - [Fireside Chat with Werner Vogels, VP & CTO, Amazon.com & Daniel Gebler, CTO at Picnic](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1405-fireside-chat-with-werner-vogels-vp-cto-amazon-com-daniel-gebler-cto-at-picnic) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Software Engineer Salary London](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/252-software-engineer-salary-london) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Fullstack Developer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/251-fullstack-developer-salary-uk) - [Backend Developer Salary in Germany [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/196-backend-developer-salary-in-germany-2023) - [Fullstack developer salary in Germany [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/197-fullstack-developer-salary-in-germany-2023)