Staff Frontend Engineer, Payroll Experiences

About The Role

Gusto is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to join our Payroll Experiences team. This role involves working on systems that empower customer-facing products and developing features that define the customer journey at Gusto. Our main goal is to ensure customer satisfaction and deliver a consistently excellent experience for running payroll for employees.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and Maintain UI Components: Develop a system of reusable UI components and documentation that supports all of Gusto’s payroll experiences. This includes working with technologies such as React.js, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
• Quality and Performance: Develop tools to ensure the quality, performance, and accessibility of Gusto’s reusable components continuously improve.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate across teams to build accessible, modular, and performant frontend experiences.
• Architectural Improvements: Make architectural improvements to Gusto’s frontend infrastructure.
• API Development: Optionally, build and maintain APIs using Ruby.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience: 5+ years of technical experience in a frontend engineering or full stack engineering role.
• Technical Proficiency: Highly proficient in front-end JavaScript technologies, preferably React.js or Typescript.
• Backend Experience: Experience in building backend APIs is an added advantage but not mandatory.
• Collaboration: Strong history of cross-functional collaboration with design and other non-technical teams.
• UI Development: Experience in building UI components that are modular, composable, flexible, maintainable, and well-documented.
• Testing: Experience with a JavaScript testing library for unit, integration, and end-to-end validation.
• Code Quality: Ability to write well-structured, easily maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Passion for Accessibility: Passionate about creating inclusive, accessible experiences for everyone.
• Emerging Trends: Familiar with emerging trends in frontend web application development, including various approaches to styling and component libraries.

Compensation

• Salary: 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.
• Equity: Stock equity is additional.

Work Environment

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees based in these locations are expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week. A secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required when working remotely.

Equal Opportunity

Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.