# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Gusto Agent & Partner Experiences (API) at Gusto

- Company: Gusto
- What the company does: Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.gusto.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Denver, CO - Hybrid; New York, NY - Hybrid; San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $213K to $236K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-14
- Apply by: 2026-11-28
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/8168216?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gusto-senior-staff-software-engineer-gusto-agent-and-partner-experiences-api/

## About the role

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Agent & Partner Experiences team, you'll be a key technical leader responsible for influencing the team and broader organization as we build and scale our platform. You'll do this through a combination of hands-on development in our complex Ruby on Rails codebase and guiding others to deliver a high quality platform experience. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Experience: 12+ years of professional software development experience. You have been a technical owner for organization-wide engineering initiatives and have played a role in scaling engineering organizations
- Technical Expertise : You are a Ruby and Rails expert. You have navigated massive Rails applications, worked with Ruby across multiple codebases, and are comfortable working at multiple layers of abstraction
- Platform Thinker : You've designed and built platforms and public-facing APIs, and have a strong understanding of how to build for reliability and performance at scale
- Bar Raiser : You've spent time mentoring and raising the technical bar for the entire organization. Others look to you for guidance on how to tackle ambiguous problems and handle competing priorities

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gusto-senior-staff-software-engineer-gusto-agent-and-partner-experiences-api/