# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Onboarding and Activation 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: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/8197807
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gusto-senior-staff-software-engineer-onboarding-and-activation/

## About the role

Getting started on Gusto should feel effortless — the path from "I just signed up" to “my business is set up and running on Gusto” is where small business owners need us most, and where the biggest opportunity to grow the business lives. We're in the middle of the most exciting shift in Gusto's history: reimagining our product as a proactive AI teammate that doesn't just help small businesses, but does the work for them.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including building and shipping customer-facing products at scale
- A product-minded engineer who starts from the customer problem and the metric that matters, not just the ticket — and who can operate independently across product, design, and data partners
- Demonstrated ability to move fast and execute with high quality: someone who ships, measures, and iterates rather than waiting for perfect certainty
- Experience applying AI/LLM capabilities to real product problems — with the judgment to know where it adds value and where it adds noise — and a habit of using AI tools to work more effectively
- A founder mindset: high ownership, comfort with ambiguity and greenfield problems, and a bias toward action and outcomes over output
- A track record of raising the bar for teams around you — through technical leadership, mentorship, and setting standards others follow

Tags: Engineering