Senior Front End Engineer - Compliance

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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 400,000 businesses nationwide.

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About the Role:

At Gusto, we’re looking for an experienced Frontend Engineer to join our Compliance Engineering team. You’ll work on systems that help small businesses stay compliant with key regulations (like sexual harassment training, workers' compensation, 401(k) management, and more). You’ll focus on building user-friendly, high-performance frontend experiences that make complex compliance workflows simple and scalable.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Build Reusable Components: Build and maintain modular, composable, and maintainable UI components using Typescript, JavaScript, React, CSS, and HTML.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with product managers, backend engineers, designers, and legal partners to translate complex compliance rules into simple and reliable product experiences.
• Improve Testing and Maintainability: Write clean, well-tested code using modern testing libraries for unit, integration, and end-to-end validation.
• Ensure High-Quality Standards: Write clean, maintainable code with automated tests for unit, integration, and end-to-end validation using tools.
• Improve Accessibility: Deliver experiences that meet or exceed WCAG accessibility standards to ensure our platform is usable by all.
• Support Scalability & Performance: Build components and experiences that are mobile responsive, performant, and capable of handling a growing user base with minimal latency**.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• 6+ years of technical experience in frontend engineering.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and TypeScript.
• Experience building responsive UIs that work seamlessly across desktop and mobile.
• Experience with JavaScript testing libraries for unit, integration, and end-to-end validation.
• Proven experience working cross-functionally with design, product, and legal teams to implement features.
• Familiarity with emerging frontend trends and best practices in performance optimization, design systems, and styling approaches.
• Ability to break down complex requirements and build scalable, reusable components.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, product, and design teams.
• Enthusiasm for building intuitive user experiences and simplifying complex workflows.
• Understanding of frontend performance best practices and interest in optimizing for speed and maintainability.
• Experience contributing to or consuming shared design systems.

Learn more about the Compliance Engineering team:

The Compliance Engineering team works at the intersection of legal regulations, business needs, and customer experience. We're dedicated to simplifying compliance for small businesses through powerful, intuitive systems that reduce the time and effort spent on administrative tasks. We collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to make complex regulations accessible and manageable for non-technical users, all while ensuring our systems scale to support small businesses across the U.S.

Please note that travel to Gusto's Denver office for onboarding is required for this position. If you have any questions regarding this requirement, please share with your recruiter.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $200,000-$240,000 in San Francisco. 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.

Why Gusto is the Right Fit for You:

• You enjoy working cross-functionally to solve real-world problems with meaningful business impact.
• You're excited to improve accessibility, performance, and responsiveness in customer-facing products.
• You care about writing maintainable, scalable frontend code and helping evolve design systems.
• You’re enthusiastic about helping small businesses navigate complex regulations through great product design.

If you’re an engineer who’s eager to shape the future of compliance products, make systems more accessible, and collaborate in a high-impact environment, we’d love to hear from you!

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 the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.

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