Staff Frontend Engineer, Payroll Experiences

 

About Gusto

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.

Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy. 

About the Role:

We're hiring engineers to join the Payroll Experiences team and work on systems that empower customer-facing products and develop features that help define the customer journey at Gusto. Our team's main goal is to keep our customers happy and deliver a consistently great experience for running payroll for their employees.

Our team is a group of folks whose primary goal is to build user experience in our flagship Cloud product, which is used by Gusto’s Customers to run the payroll for their employees and contractors. We also build and maintain APIs for some of our team-specific requirements.

What’s fascinating about our team is that we build one of the core experiences of the flagship Gusto product! Our work is not done in isolation, but in close collaboration with many cross-functional teams. This collaborative approach ensures that the features we develop are not just innovative, but also seamlessly integrated into the overall product. And the best part? Our work positively impacts millions of employees and contractors. 

If you’re an engineer who enjoys building fantastic customer features and wants to influence the product, you should join our team!

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Build and maintain a system of reusable UI components and documentation that empowers all of Gusto’s payroll experiences including React.js, Typescript, Javascript, CSS, and HTML.
• Develop tools to ensure that the quality, performance, and accessibility of Gusto’s reusable components continuously improve.
• Coordinate across teams in building accessible, modular, performant frontend experiences.
• Create and improve on tools for developing performant, accessible experiences for our customers.
• Make architectural improvements to Gusto’s frontend infrastructure.
• Optionally, build and maintain APIs using Ruby.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• 5+ years of technical experience in a frontend engineering (or) a full stack engineering role.
• Highly proficient in front-end Java script technologies, preferably React.js or Typescript.
• Experience in building backend APIs is an added advantage but not mandatory.
• Strong history of cross-functional collaboration with Design and/or other non-technical teams.
• Experience in building UI components that are modular, composable, flexible, maintainable, and well-documented.
• Experience with a JavaScript testing library for unit, integration, and end-to-end validation.
• Appreciation for a collaborative, test-driven environment.
• Experience turning wireframes and mockups into responsive, accessible, tested code.
• Well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code that balances beauty and pragmatism.
• Passionate about creating inclusive, accessible experiences for everyone.
• Familiar with emerging trends in frontend web application development, including the various approaches to styling (CSS Modules, CSS-in-JS, Sass, etc.), component libraries (Material UI, Carbon, Polaris, and Lightning), accessibility tooling (aXe, Lighthouse), and observability (Fullstory, etc.).

Learn more about the Gusto team:

• Our Engineering Culture and Values
• How We Built a Service-Driven Team
• Our Diversity Goals and Efforts

Compensation

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $164,000/yr to $195,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $199,000/yr to $235,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Stock equity is additional. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

 

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 th