Staff Software Engineer, PEO Growth

<div class="content-intro"><p style="line-height: 1.2;">&nbsp;</p> <hr> <p><strong>About Gusto</strong></p> <p>At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve.</p> <p>All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success. Offer amounts are determined by role, level, and location. Learn more about our<a href="https://gusto.com/about/careers/total-rewards" target="_blank"> <u>Total Rewards philosophy</u></a>.</p> <p>AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves. AI experience requirements vary by role and will be assessed during the interview process.</p></div><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>Gusto is building a PEO (Professional Employer Organization): a product where Gusto becomes a co-employer for small businesses, taking on payroll, benefits, workers' compensation, and HR compliance so owners don't have to assemble it themselves. It's one of the biggest strategic bets in the company.&nbsp; As a Staff Engineer on PEO Growth, you'll own the path from how a business discovers PEO all the way to getting the business fully set up.&nbsp; The decisions you make here shape whether a small business can adopt one of the most consequential products we've ever shipped, or give up halfway through.</p> <h2><strong>About the Team</strong></h2> <p>PEO Growth owns the customer experience of adopting the PEO — the end-to-end journey that takes a business from interested to fully up and running. Much of what that journey depends on is built by other teams across Gusto, so our job is to make it feel like one coherent product rather than a series of handoffs.&nbsp; That makes the work as much cross-team design and negotiation as it is code, and it means you'll have real influence over how the experience gets shaped, not just how it's implemented.&nbsp; The team is a pod of engineers, product manager, and designer with a bias towards building and shipping.</p> <h2><strong>Here's what you'll do day-to-day</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Own the PEO Onboarding experience end to end — how a business learns about the PEO, commits to it, and gets set up on it — and be accountable for whether customers make i